Hero of Bretagard
Creature — Human Warrior
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your hand or a spell or ability you control exiles one or more permanents from the battlefield, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
As long as this creature has five or more counters on it, it has flying and is an Angel in addition to its other types.
As long as this creature has ten or more counters on it, it has indestructible and is a God in addition to its other types.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaldheim Commander
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #13282
Hero of Bretagard turns exile-based token strategies into a lategame threat that becomes indestructible and then outright legendary once it's exiled enough cards — the payoff scales hard in the right shell. The ask is a dedicated exile-matters engine; without consistent fuel like Ranar the Ever-Watchful generating Spirit tokens off every exiled card, Hero of Bretagard just sits at 1/1 and does nothing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ranar the Ever-Watchful
Ranar the Ever-Watchful is the natural home — every time Ranar exiles a card through foretell or a replacement effect, Hero of Bretagard ticks up a counter, and the two cards form a tight loop where one generates value and the other converts that value into a growing clock.
Brago, King Eternal
Brago, King Eternal blinks permanents to generate exile triggers and reset counters matters cards, and Hero of Bretagard benefits because each blink cycle can feed its counter accumulation while Brago keeps the engine churning through repeated untap phases.
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 |
Hero of Bretagard is a Commander card through and through — the long game a 100-card singleton environment provides is exactly what a slow counter-accumulation build needs to reach indestructible and the legendary transformation. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has no competitive application; three-mana 1/1s that need setup to do anything are nowhere near the power threshold those formats demand. Commander is where the card earns its slot, specifically in Azorius or white-heavy exile-matters builds where the gameplan already revolves around foretell, suspend, or flicker effects that incidentally exile cards. Outside that niche, even in Commander, Hero of Bretagard is a role-player rather than a staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Hero of Bretagard is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap inclusion for any exile-matters Commander build without any budget consideration. Bulk rares with narrow archetypes tend to stay in this range, so don't expect movement unless a new commander pushes exile synergies into the mainstream.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.