Glory
Creature — Incarnation
Flying
: Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. Activate only if this card is in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- World Championship Decks 2002
- Price
- $1.38
- EDHREC rank
- #12054
Glory turns your entire team into a protection machine from the graveyard — pay two mana, name a color, and every creature you control gets protection from it until end of turn. The cost is that Glory has to be in the graveyard to do anything, which means you need a way to get it there, and Zirda, the Dawnwaker cuts the activation from three mana to one, making the ability trivially repeatable.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zirda, the Dawnwaker
Zirda, the Dawnwaker's passive halves all activated ability costs, dropping Glory's protection ability to a single mana — which means you can name multiple colors in one turn and make your whole board untouchable for essentially nothing.
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 |
Glory is a Commander card through and through. The graveyard activation requires a slow, build-around environment where you can afford to mill or discard it deliberately, and Commander's 100-card singleton structure and longer game length reward that setup cost. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never sees play — those formats end too fast and run too much graveyard hate for a five-mana 3/3 to earn a slot. Commander is where Glory actually wins games, protecting an alpha strike or blanket-stopping a board wipe's aftermath by naming the relevant colors at instant speed from the bin.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.38 cheap tier
At $1.38, Glory sits comfortably in the cheap tier — it's a low-risk pickup for any white creature deck that wants repeatable, flexible protection. That price reflects a genuine utility card with a narrow enough home that it won't spike unpredictably.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.