Galina's Knight
Creature — Merfolk Knight
Protection from red
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #29094
Galina's Knight is a two-mana 2/1 with protection from red — playable in Limited decades ago, irrelevant in Commander today. The static protection from red is too narrow to justify a roster slot when better two-drops exist at every budget.
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 |
Galina's Knight is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees any real play is Pauper, where the common-only card pool makes a 2/1 with protection from red occasionally relevant in aggressive Azorius builds. In Commander, it's a 99-card format with access to far more impactful two-drops, and protection from a single color doesn't translate to consistent utility across a four-player table. Legacy and Vintage give it a legal status that's purely academic — nothing there wants a vanilla-adjacent bear. Pauper is the honest home, and even there it sits at the fringe of competitive lists.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Galina's Knight is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it's the only card that fits a very specific Pauper slot. It will hold that price floor indefinitely, which is to say it has no meaningful price trajectory in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.