Kjeldoran Royal Guard
Creature — Human Soldier
: All combat damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures this turn is dealt to this creature instead.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #25791
Kjeldoran Royal Guard redirects all combat damage dealt to your other creatures to itself — a powerful defensive effect that can lock down an aggressive board, but one that costs four mana for a 2/5 with no evasion and no protection. That price is too steep for most lists when cheaper, more reliable fog effects and pillow-fort pieces exist.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Kjeldoran Royal Guard occupies a narrow niche in pillow-fort and lifegain shells that want to survive long enough to assemble an engine — think Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — but even there it competes badly against redundant options that come down earlier. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no interest in a four-mana 2/5 with no immediate impact; creature-based combat tricks at this cost have never been playable in those formats. Oathbreaker could theoretically support it in a go-wide defense strategy, but the same ceiling applies: four mana for a reactive body that dies to a single removal spell is not a reliable game plan anywhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Kjeldoran Royal Guard is deep bulk — the price reflects demand accurately. It won't creep up without a sudden spike in Commander content around its effect, and that's unlikely given how many cleaner defensive options exist at the same cost or less.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.