Knight of Old Benalia
Creature — Human Knight
Suspend 5—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #25850
Knight of Old Benalia is a 3/3 with suspend 5 that eventually enters as a 5/5 — reasonable stats for the mana, but five turns of waiting makes it nearly unplayable in any competitive context. The payoff doesn't come close to justifying the setup cost when better creatures exist at every price point.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Knight of Old Benalia is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth doesn't translate to relevance. In Pauper it's theoretically the most interesting home — suspend synergies and +1/+1 counter builds exist — but even there a 5/5 for five turns of waiting rarely makes the cut. In Modern and Legacy the card simply doesn't compete; the suspend cost is too steep and the end result too small to matter. Commander is where Knight of Old Benalia occasionally appears in Atraxa or proliferate shells that can accelerate suspend counters off, but it's still a fringe inclusion rather than a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Knight of Old Benalia is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin, not buying it deliberately. There's no reason to expect this to appreciate; the casual demand ceiling is low and it has no competitive footprint.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.