Holy Avenger
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has double strike.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, you may put an Aura card from your hand onto the battlefield attached to it.
Equip 
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Forgotten Realms Commander
- Price
- $1.95
- EDHREC rank
- #9301
Holy Avenger lands and immediately threatens to dump your entire Aura package onto a creature the moment it connects — the payoff is a free Sovereigns of Lost Alara stapled to a 3/3 vigilance body. The cost is five mana for a creature that needs to attack before it does anything, which means removal answers it cleanly before you see a trigger; run it in decks that protect their attackers, not fair-combat decks.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Galea, Kindler of Hope
Galea, Kindler of Hope plays Holy Avenger as a second win condition — Galea lets you play Auras off the top for free, and Holy Avenger's trigger grabs any of them from the library the moment it swings, giving the deck two independent Aura-chaining engines that demand answers on two fronts.
Uril, the Miststalker
Uril, the Miststalker is already hexproof and grows with every Aura attached, so Holy Avenger's attack trigger fetches the exact Aura needed to push Uril lethal — doubling up on the enchantment-stacking gameplan without requiring Uril to be on board at all.
Sigarda, Host of Herons
Sigarda, Host of Herons can't be forced to sacrifice permanents, which means once Holy Avenger resolves in a Sigarda deck, opponents have a narrow window to interact before the Aura chain makes both creatures insurmountable.
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 |
Holy Avenger is a Commander card through and through — the free-Aura trigger is only broken when you have a library full of enchantments to grab and a game length that lets you untap with it. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with formats that move too fast for a five-mana do-nothing-until-attack creature to matter, so it sees no meaningful play there. Oathbreaker is its only other home worth considering, specifically in white-green Aura-based signature-spell shells where the card does real work. Everywhere else it's either illegal or irrelevant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.95 cheap tier
At $1.95, Holy Avenger sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it's a no-brainer include in any Galea or Uril build where it already belongs. Demand is narrow enough that the price stays stable rather than climbing, so there's no urgency to buy in bulk.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.