Heroes' Podium
Legendary Artifact
Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other legendary creature you control.
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: Look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal a legendary creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #2614
Heroes' Podium pumps every legendary creature you control by +1/+1 for each other legendary you have out — in a legends-matter deck that number climbs fast and turns your whole board sideways. Five mana for a static anthem that scales with your creature count is a real rate, and the activated ability tacking on a legendary-only Impulse means it pulls ahead in long games.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge runs a critical mass of legendary creatures to trigger its menace-and-draw engine, so Heroes' Podium sits on top of that density as a scaling anthem that grows more threatening with every legend that hits the battlefield.
Kethis, the Hidden Hand
Kethis, the Hidden Hand wants as many legendary permanents in play as possible to discount recursive casts, and Heroes' Podium rewards that density with a board-wide pump that compounds as the legend count climbs.
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness cares about having legendary creatures die and trigger effects, which means a wide legendary board is the norm — Heroes' Podium turns that wide board into a lethal attack.
Jodah, the Unifier
Jodah, the Unifier cascades off legendary spells and floods the board with legends, so Heroes' Podium reliably becomes a massive anthem by the mid-game when Jodah's engine is running.
Dihada, Binder of Wills
Dihada, Binder of Wills protects and recurs legendary permanents, keeping the legend count consistently high — exactly the condition under which Heroes' Podium becomes a win-accelerant rather than a mediocre equipment.
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 |
Heroes' Podium is a Commander card in practice; its effect is entirely parasitic on legendary density, which only a dedicated legends-matter Commander deck reliably provides. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but essentially unplayed — five mana for a conditional anthem that does nothing the turn it enters has no competitive application in those formats. Oathbreaker gives it a narrow home in a planeswalker-plus-legends shell, but the card still needs a critical mass of legendary creatures to justify the mana. The activated ability, a one-time impulse draw filtered to legendaries, is useful only when you can reliably find what you're looking for, which means deeper legends-matter pools in Commander are where it actually pays off.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Heroes' Podium isn't currently available in this page's dataset, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given its narrow legendary synergy requirement, it has historically sat in the budget-to-mid range — worth confirming before you trade for it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.