Keldon Halberdier
Creature — Human Warrior
First strike
Suspend 4—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #24332
Keldon Halberdier is a 5/2 first strike for five mana — the stat line is real, but five mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature that dies to a stiff breeze is not a rate Commander tables respect. Unless you're actively enabling hellbent or paying off haste synergies, better five-drops exist in every red deck.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Keldon Halberdier sees essentially no competitive play across any format where it's legal. In Pauper, it's outclassed by cheaper aggressive red commons that close games faster or leave better bodies behind. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana is a game-deciding amount and this doesn't come close to deciding one. Commander is the only context where it occasionally appears — specifically in hellbent-matters builds or bulk-red tribal shells — but even there it's a card you're cutting as soon as you find an upgrade.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Keldon Halberdier is deep bulk — you're essentially paying for the sleeve. Don't expect that floor to move; demand is too low and supply too high for any price appreciation.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.