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Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Sacrifice Hajar: Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4420
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Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard card art
Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard gives your commander indestructible at instant speed by sacrificing himself — a one-time fog against targeted removal or a board wipe that would otherwise end your game. The cost is real: he's a 3/2 for two mana who trades permanently for a single save, so you're betting his body that the commander he's protecting is worth more than a 3/2 on the board. In decks built around a single high-value commander like Kenrith, the Returned King or Anzrag, the Quake-Mole, that's an easy trade.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Anzrag, the Quake-Mole

Anzrag, the Quake-Mole

46.0% of decks · synergy 0.44

Anzrag, the Quake-Mole lives and dies by surviving combat — if he gets blocked and killed before he can trigger, the whole engine stalls — and Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard answers that by holding up a sacrifice response to any removal that would stop Anzrag mid-swing.

02
Jodah, the Unifier

Jodah, the Unifier

35.5% of decks · synergy 0.33

Jodah, the Unifier is a five-color legendary tribal payoff that opponents prioritize removing on sight, and Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard fits the theme literally — he's a legendary Human who protects the most important legendary on the board.

03
Aragorn, the Uniter

Aragorn, the Uniter

19.0% of decks · synergy 0.12

Aragorn, the Uniter generates value off every multicolored spell you cast, so keeping him alive long enough to generate that value is the whole game plan; Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard slots in as a one-shot insurance policy that also happens to satisfy the legendary-matters synergies in those shells.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where he actually sees play. In 60-card formats, a 3/2 for two that sacrifices to grant indestructible once is too slow and too narrow — instant-speed protection spells like Heroic Intervention or Tyvar's Stand do the job without dying in the process. In Commander, the calculus flips: one-for-one protection for your commander is worth a card when your commander is a game-winning engine, and Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard offers that on a body that can at least swing or chump in the meantime. Oathbreaker has the same logic as Commander at a smaller scale, and any planeswalker-centric deck that would otherwise lose to a single removal spell has reason to consider him.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Hajar, Loyal BodyguardEnduring RenewalBard Class

Hajar, Loyal BodyguardEnduring RenewalBard Class

Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite power for certain creatures until end of turn; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard isn't available in our current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given his narrow role — a one-shot protection piece for commander-dependent decks — expect him to sit in budget territory unless a breakout deck pushes demand.

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