Inner-Chamber Guard
Creature — Human Samurai
Bushido 2 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #20819
Inner-Chamber Guard is a 2/3 vigilance creature for two mana — efficiently statted, always available to block without tapping out of combat. The problem is it does exactly that and nothing else, which is rarely enough to earn a slot in Commander.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Inner-Chamber Guard is fringe at best — vigilance without a payoff attached is not a meaningful axis, and a 2/3 body disappears in a multiplayer board state. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; those formats have no patience for vanilla-adjacent creatures at any cost. Modern could theoretically support it in a very budget aggro shell, but there are simply better two-drops in every direction. Inner-Chamber Guard is legal in Oathbreaker as well, where the same logic applies — you need your cards to do more than occupy a combat step.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Inner-Chamber Guard sits squarely in bulk territory — a price that reflects its limited demand across formats. It won't rise meaningfully without a reprint-proof niche, and it currently has none.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.