General Jarkeld
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
: Choose two target blocked attacking creatures. If each of those creatures could be blocked by all creatures that the other is blocked by, each creature that's blocking exactly one of those attacking creatures stops blocking it and is blocking the other attacking creature. Activate only during the declare blockers step.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.74
- EDHREC rank
- #25669
General Jarkeld swaps two blocked creatures mid-combat, turning a stalled board into a selective removal tool — the blocker your opponent assigned suddenly faces something it can't survive. The setup cost is real: you need Jarkeld tapped, the ability costs two mana, and the window is narrow enough that opponents can see it coming.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where General Jarkeld has any reasonable home, slotted into white-blue decks that want repeatable, political combat tricks — though even there it competes with cleaner tap-and-redirect effects. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but General Jarkeld does nothing at those tables; the effect is too slow and too conditional to matter in any powered or tempo context. Oathbreaker is the one format where its narrowness is mildly more forgivable, since smaller life totals make a single well-timed swap more impactful. The honest read: outside Commander, this card doesn't show up.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.74 bulk tier
At $0.74, General Jarkeld sits firmly in bulk territory, priced about right for a card with almost no competitive demand. Don't expect movement — casual curiosity is the ceiling on this one.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.