Keldon Strike Team
Creature — Human Warrior
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
As long as this creature entered this turn, creatures you control have haste.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.01
- EDHREC rank
- #24457
Keldon Strike Team puts a free attacking token on the board every combat — no mana, no trigger, just pressure — and that engine gets explosive the moment you pair it with blink or flicker effects like Sword of Hearth and Home. Four mana for a 3/3 with no immediate board impact is the tax you pay, but any deck that can reset it repeatedly gets far more than its money's worth.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Keldon Strike Team is a Commander card through and through — the token-per-combat payoff compounds over a long multiplayer game in a way that never translates to the speed of competitive 1v1 formats. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's simply too slow and too easy to answer at four mana before the token economy matters. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it's technically legal and might see fringe play in a dedicated tokens or flicker shell, though it faces stiff competition at that mana cost. Commander remains the correct home, specifically in decks built around combat-step repetition or blink effects that can extract more than one token per turn from the same Keldon Strike Team.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Sword of Hearth and HomeCombat CelebrantKeldon Strike Team
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite combat phases; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Infinite combat damage; Put all basic lands from your library onto the battlefield
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Current price
$0.01 bulk tier
At $0.01, Keldon Strike Team is pure bulk — no price floor to worry about, no risk in picking up a playset. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a combo or commander elevates demand, and this one's ceiling depends entirely on whether a future blink or combat-step commander breaks into the format.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.