Fleet-Footed Monk
Creature — Human Monk
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or greater.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #28956
Fleet-Footed Monk enters the battlefield and immediately grants a creature of your choice protection from multicolored until end of turn — that's a combat trick, a removal dodge, and a blocker all on a 1/2 body for two mana. It's narrow enough that only decks leaning on that protection trigger will want it, but in those shells it earns its slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fleet-Footed Monk is a niche include — the protection ability is genuinely useful for pushing a creature through blockers or blanking a multicolored removal spell, but most white decks have better two-drops competing for the spot. Pauper is where Fleet-Footed Monk has the most realistic case, since the commons card pool shrinks the competition and any repeatable protection effect on a creature body carries more relative weight. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the power ceiling in those formats leaves a 1/2 for two with a conditional protection trigger well off the table.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Fleet-Footed Monk is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping more than the card itself. Bulk commons don't appreciate, so pick it up only if you have an immediate home for it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.