Faramir, Prince of Ithilien
Legendary Creature — Human Noble
At the beginning of your end step, choose an opponent. At the beginning of that player's next end step, you draw a card if they didn't attack you that turn. Otherwise, create three 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4933
Faramir, Prince of Ithilien taxes your opponents' spells by making them pay life equal to those spells' mana values, turning every counterspell, wrath, or tutor into a resource drain — and he does it for four mana in white-blue-green. Pair him with Aragorn, King of Gondor and the life-loss clock compounds fast enough that opponents start making worse decisions just to stay alive.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aragorn, King of Gondor
Aragorn, King of Gondor triggers off legendary creatures entering and rewards attacking, so Faramir, Prince of Ithilien slots in as both a taxing presence and a legendary body that advances Aragorn's own game plan.
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden rewards playing legendary creatures and building a wide battlefield, and Faramir, Prince of Ithilien adds a punishment layer that slows down interaction from opponents trying to disrupt that board.
Aragorn, the Uniter
Aragorn, the Uniter fires off cascading triggers whenever you cast spells of specific colors, and Faramir, Prince of Ithilien fills the curve while taxing opponents who want to interact with the increasingly threatening board state Aragorn generates.
The Council of Four
The Council of Four wants to keep opponents relatively parity-bound while generating card advantage from everyone drawing, and Faramir, Prince of Ithilien's life-drain tax punishes the draws and spells opponents fire off, accelerating the life-loss pressure.
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher rewards opponents drawing cards and then leverages that shared card flow, making Faramir, Prince of Ithilien's tax especially punishing — every card an opponent draws is a spell away from costing them life.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Faramir, Prince of Ithilien does his real work — a multiplayer table magnifies the life-loss tax across three opponents, and 40 starting life creates just enough cushion that players feel safe ignoring the drain until they suddenly don't. In Legacy and Vintage he's legal but irrelevant; those formats end before the tax accumulates and four mana is a prohibitive investment when the stack resolves faster than he can matter. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander multiplayer home where the card has some legs, particularly as a signature spell target or in a tax-heavy shell, though the shorter game length limits how much damage the trigger can pile up.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Faramir, Prince of Ithilien isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Given his 40% inclusion rate in Aragorn, King of Gondor decks and appearance across multiple high-volume commanders, demand is real — buy-in is likely modest but worth confirming before pulling the trigger.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.