Khorvath Brightflame
Legendary Creature — Dragon
Partner with Sylvia Brightspear (When this creature enters, target player may put Sylvia into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Flying, haste
Knights your team controls have flying and haste.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Battlebond Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #16190
Khorvath Brightflame hands every Knight you control flying and haste, turning a board of ground-pounders into an immediate air assault — that's a lot of text for six mana. The cost is steep enough that without dedicated ramp or cost reduction, Khorvath sits in hand while faster threats close 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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Khorvath Brightflame is a Commander card through and through — the six-mana slot is punishing in Legacy and Vintage, where the game is typically decided before a Dragon hits the table, and the Knight tribal payoff has no meaningful support structure in those formats anyway. In Commander, Khorvath slots into any Boros or Mardu Knight build as a finisher that converts a stalled board into a lethal flying attack the turn it resolves. The partner mechanic is the real draw: pairing Khorvath with Sylvia Brightflame gives your Knights double strike on top of flying and haste, which is a credible combo-kill threat in the command zone.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Khorvath Brightflame isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number. As a niche tribal enabler from a supplemental product, copies tend to be cheap — it's the kind of card worth picking up for well under a dollar if you're building Knight tribal.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.