Kellan's Lightblades
Instant
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Kellan's Lightblades deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. If this spell was bargained, destroy that creature instead.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #21908
Kellan's Lightblades kills a creature or planeswalker for two mana — clean and unconditional — but it only hits nonwhite permanents, which is a real restriction in a format full of white commanders. It's fine filler in aggressive red-white builds that need cheap removal, but it's not a staple.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Kellan's Lightblades occupies the bottom tier of removal — playable but replaceable, since so many stronger options exist at the same price point. White-red decks that need cheap interaction can run it, but any pod with white-heavy commanders (Isshin, Giada, Heliod) will find targets embarrassingly scarce. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, two mana for a sorcery-speed kill spell with a color restriction doesn't clear the bar — Lightning Bolt, Fatal Push, and their peers do the job faster and broader. Pauper is where Kellan's Lightblades is most at home, where the card pool is shallow enough that "hits most things" does more work.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Kellan's Lightblades is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. That price reflects the ceiling accurately; this isn't a card that trends up.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.