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General's Regalia

Artifact

{3}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, that damage is dealt to target creature you control instead.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Mercadian Masques
Price
$2.71
EDHREC rank
#20001
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General's Regalia card art
General's Regalia lets you redirect damage dealt to a creature you control to a player instead — a combat trick, a burn enabler, and a combo piece stapled to a single artifact. The cost is steep: it requires tapping and spending mana equal to the damage you're redirecting, which means it does nothing without a damage source worth redirecting, but pair it with Volcano Hellion and you're pointing an arbitrarily large number at a player's face for free.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where General's Regalia actually lives — the 40-life total and multiplayer table make damage-redirection combos worth building around, and the card slots cleanly into any artifact-heavy or damage-doubling shell. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes on paper, but neither format has any interest in a three-mana artifact with a conditional tap ability when faster, more consistent win conditions exist. Oathbreaker is the same story as Commander at a smaller scale: if your planeswalker and signature spell support a damage-redirect loop, General's Regalia earns its slot; otherwise it's a niche include.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.71 cheap tier

At $2.71, General's Regalia sits in the cheap tier — low enough that the price is never the reason to leave it out of a deck that wants it. It's a narrow card with a small audience, so don't expect demand to push the price meaningfully in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.