Kjeldoran Knight
Creature — Human Knight
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.: This creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $1.21
- EDHREC rank
- #22493
Kjeldoran Knight is a two-mana 1/1 with two activated abilities that cost mana to pump power and toughness — playable in 1994, outclassed by a decade of power creep since. Unless you're building around a very specific Knights or banding-adjacent theme, there are better two-drops in every format where this is legal.
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 |
Kjeldoran Knight is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, a 1/1 for two that needs additional mana investment just to trade with modern staple creatures is below the floor for 100-card singleton — the format's power level has simply lapped it. Legacy and Vintage have access to the full card pool, which means Kjeldoran Knight competes against the most efficient creatures ever printed and doesn't make the cut. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton structure but plays at a faster pace, where a low-impact two-drop without immediate board effect is a liability.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.21 cheap tier
At $1.21, Kjeldoran Knight sits in the cheap tier — priced mostly on age and collector interest rather than play demand. Don't expect that number to move; it's a casual curiosity, not a card with enough competitive application to drive price pressure in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.