Expedition Champion
Creature — Human Warrior
This creature gets +2/+0 as long as you control another Warrior.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #24600
Expedition Champion is a 3/2 for three mana that gets +2/+0 as long as you control another Warrior — a conditional buff that makes it a real threat in Warrior tribal but a blank in any other context. Run it only if your deck is built around Warriors; otherwise it's just an underpowered three-drop.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Expedition Champion is a tribal payoff, and tribal payoffs live or die by how deep the support is in a given format. In Commander, Warrior tribal has enough density — Najeela, the Blade-Blossom and Arahbo-adjacent builds aside, dedicated Warrior commanders give Expedition Champion a real home. In Pauper, Warriors lack the critical mass to make a coherent archetype, so it doesn't see play. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have far stronger options at every point on the curve, and Expedition Champion never appears in competitive lists for those formats. It's a Commander and casual-only card in practice.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Expedition Champion is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on any market. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price tier don't move unless a new tribal commander dramatically spikes demand, and there's no current catalyst for that here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.