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Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

{2}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control. You may return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you don't, at the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a vigilance counter and a lifelink counter on it.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
Price
$0.38
EDHREC rank
#4601
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Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector card art
Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector untaps all your creatures when she enters, which is the kind of on-board impact that ends games — particularly in decks that can recur or flicker her repeatedly. The cost is a three-mana 2/3 with no built-in protection, so she folds to removal before you get a second trigger; pair her with Village Bell-Ringer lookalikes for redundancy, and she becomes a cornerstone of any Éowyn, Shieldmaiden combo stack.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden

44.3% of decks · synergy 0.41

Éowyn, Shieldmaiden triggers on creatures entering under your control, and Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector's mass untap lets Éowyn swing immediately after tapping down to pay costs — the two cards form the backbone of the deck's primary combo loop.

02
Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar

Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar

42.7% of decks · synergy 0.41

Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar cares about tapping and untapping creatures for value, and Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector delivers a whole-board untap on entry — a single flicker of Gilraen can generate a full round of Vondam triggers in one shot.

03
Aragorn, King of Gondor

Aragorn, King of Gondor

38.5% of decks · synergy 0.36

Aragorn, King of Gondor wants to attack with as many creatures as possible and rewards you for doing so, and Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector's ETB untap means creatures that tapped for mana or abilities are ready to swing the same turn she arrives.

05
Zidane, Tantalus Thief

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

28.6% of decks · synergy 0.28

Zidane, Tantalus Thief wants creatures attacking repeatedly to steal value, and Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector lets any creature that already attacked stand back up and do it again with the right combat tricks in play.

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 Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector does all her real work — the mass-untap trigger is designed for multiplayer boards where you have five or six creatures to unlock at once, and the Tolkien-adjacent commander ecosystem gives her immediate tribal homes. Legacy and Vintage technically allow her, but a three-mana 2/3 with no immediate card advantage isn't competing in those formats outside of a very narrow combo shell. Oathbreaker is a reasonable fit for the same reason Commander is: the format rewards efficient ETB engines, and untapping your whole board at instant speed via a flicker is exactly the kind of broken-if-repeated effect that Oathbreaker combo decks want. Outside of Commander, treat her as format-legal but competitively irrelevant.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.38 bulk tier

At $0.38, Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector is firmly bulk — buy a playset without thinking about it. She sees enough play in Éowyn, Shieldmaiden lists that demand keeps a floor under the price, but don't expect it to climb meaningfully unless a new commander pushes mass-untap effects back into the spotlight.

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