Gustcloak Cavalier
Creature — Human Knight
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap target creature.
Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may untap this creature and remove it from combat.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #26946
Gustcloak Cavalier gives you a 3/3 with flanking that can untap and remove itself from combat at instant speed — a genuinely disruptive blocker that punishes attackers and dodges removal. Five mana for that statline is the problem; it's a fair card in an unfair format.
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 |
Gustcloak Cavalier is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, the five-mana slot is brutally contested, and a 3/3 that protects itself from one combat isn't pulling weight at a table with 120 life to race through. Legacy and Vintage don't want it — those formats end before flanking matters. Modern has long since moved past five-mana vanilla-statline creatures. Oathbreaker is where it has the most theoretical home, specifically in white go-wide or Knight-tribal shells, but even there better options exist at the same cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Gustcloak Cavalier is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price is stable because demand is essentially zero, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.