Geist-Honored Monk
Creature — Human Monk
Vigilance
Geist-Honored Monk's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaldheim Commander
- Price
- $0.76
- EDHREC rank
- #8214
Geist-Honored Monk lands as a 5/5 with vigilance at minimum and immediately floods the board with two Spirit tokens — that's three bodies for five mana, with the power and toughness scaling upward as your creature count grows. It's a natural fit wherever Ranar the Ever-Watchful wants token production, and it can satisfy Mayael's Aria's 5-power threshold the turn it enters. The cost is real — five mana is a lot to ask before you see a single attack step — but the immediate board presence makes it worth it in the right shell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ranar the Ever-Watchful
Ranar the Ever-Watchful turns every Spirit token Geist-Honored Monk produces into an additional 1/1 Spirit, meaning a single cast of Geist-Honored Monk can snowball into four or more bodies if Ranar is already online.
Winota, Joiner of Forces
Winota, Joiner of Forces needs non-Human attackers to trigger her ability, and the Spirit tokens from Geist-Honored Monk are exactly that — two free non-Human bodies that immediately threaten Winota triggers on the following combat.
Thalisse, Reverent Medium
Thalisse, Reverent Medium rewards token creation at end of turn with additional Spirits, and Geist-Honored Monk's two-token entry feeds that trigger directly, compounding the board state every turn cycle.
Brago, King Eternal
Brago, King Eternal can blink Geist-Honored Monk during the declare blockers step, resetting its enters-the-battlefield trigger each combat and steadily inflating both the token count and Geist-Honored Monk's own power and toughness.
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 the obvious home for Geist-Honored Monk — the format's longer games let the token-count payoff accumulate, and Spirit-tribal or token-go-wide strategies have the density to make its power scaling meaningful. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but invisible; five mana for a creature that doesn't win the game immediately doesn't compete when the format is ending on turn two or three. Modern similarly has no interest — the rate is too slow against a field of cheaper, more consistent threats. Geist-Honored Monk is a Commander card through and through, and that's fine.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Mayael's AriaStorm HerdGeist-Honored Monk
Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
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Current price
$0.76 bulk tier
At $0.76, Geist-Honored Monk sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire, easy to trade for, and unlikely to spike given its narrow Commander niche. The price is stable; this isn't a card that sees surprise cross-format demand, so what you see is what you get.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.