Haktos the Unscarred
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
Haktos attacks each combat if able.
As Haktos enters, choose 2, 3, or 4 at random.
Haktos has protection from each mana value other than the chosen number.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17106
Haktos the Unscarred hits the board as a 6/1 haste, double strike attacker who is literally protection-from-everything except one randomly chosen mana value — an effect that no amount of spot removal, targeted interaction, or combat tricks can reliably answer. The cost is that he dies to a stiff breeze: 1 toughness means any untargeted damage source, mass -X/-X effect, or even a 1/1 blocker ends him before he swings again.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Haktos the Unscarred is a high-variance threat — when the protection number lands on 2 or 3 and your opponents are packing removal-dense lists, he can be functionally unkillable by targeted means, but 1 toughness makes him a liability the moment anyone has a Pyroclasm or a pinger. He slots most naturally into Boros or Mardu aggro builds that can give him trample or lifelink so the single swing actually closes games. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, the combination of haste, double strike, and blanket protection is genuinely frightening — a turn-three Haktos backed by any pump spell can end the game before opponents stabilize — but the randomness of the protection number makes him unreliable in formats that demand consistency. Pioneer offers a slightly friendlier home given the lower density of mass-damage effects, though he remains a fringe choice there.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data for Haktos the Unscarred isn't available in our current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given that he's a mythic rare with a narrow but genuine competitive application, expect him to sit in the $1–4 range typical of high-concept mythics that see occasional rather than sustained play — worth picking up if you're building around him, not a priority speculative grab.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.