Jolrael's Centaur
Creature — Centaur Archer
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #28909
Jolrael's Centaur is a 2/2 shroud creature for two mana that blankets itself and your hand in protection from discard — a genuinely unique ability that almost never matters in the formats where you'd play it. The cost isn't the mana; it's the opportunity cost of a slot that could hold something that actually closes games.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Jolrael's Centaur is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but finds meaningful play in essentially none of them. In Commander, hand disruption is rare enough that the discard-protection clause is mostly invisible, and a vanilla 2/2 shroud for two does nothing in a 40-life multiplayer game. In Pauper, where the card is technically eligible, the format's threat density and combo speed make a 2/2 with a situational protection clause unplayable. Legacy and Vintage are hostile environments for fair two-drops that don't affect the board the turn they arrive.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Jolrael's Centaur is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a commons box and rarely leaves it. That price is likely stable simply because demand is near zero, not because the card is undervalued.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.