Keldon Marauders
Creature — Human Warrior
Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eternal Masters
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #24325
Keldon Marauders enters dealing 2 damage to any opponent and leaves dealing 2 more — guaranteed, unconditional, no attack required. The body is temporary and the card slots are precious, but five free damage spread across two triggers is real rate for a two-mana red creature.
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 Marauders sees its most concentrated play in Pauper, where its enters-and-leaves damage triggers fit neatly into red damage-based strategies and the common card pool limits competition. In Legacy and Vintage it's a footnote — the card is legal but too slow and too small to register. Commander is where Keldon Marauders earns a niche: pinpoint drain effects are worth real mana in aristocrats and damage-trigger shells, and commanders like Judith, the Scourge Diva or Toralf, God of Fury reward creatures that deal damage without swinging.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Keldon Marauders is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box rather than a cart. That price won't move; there's no scarcity angle here, just a cheap effect you either want in your list or you don't.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.