Knight of the New Coalition
Creature — Human Knight
Vigilance
When this creature enters, create a 2/2 white and blue Knight creature token with vigilance.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #18712
Knight of the New Coalition hands you a free Protection ability to distribute every time a creature enters under your control — no mana required, just a steady stream of bodies. Dion, Bahamut's Dominant turns that into a full-table immunity engine, stacking protections across a board that naturally floods with tokens and Dragon triggers.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant generates exactly the kind of repeated creature flow that lets Knight of the New Coalition fire every turn, and the protections you stack preemptively answer the removal and blocks that would otherwise slow Dion's combat dominance.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Knight of the New Coalition is a role-player in go-wide token strategies and creature-flood decks where the enter-the-battlefield triggers stack up fast enough to matter. Pauper is where the card has the most competitive relevance — creature-dense aggressive decks can use the free protection grants to push through blockers or dodge a key removal spell. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's outclassed by the sheer speed and power density of those formats, where taxing your opponent's interaction once or twice isn't a meaningful axis. Knight of the New Coalition is legal across the board but belongs on the short list only where creature volume is both the strategy and the payoff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Knight of the New Coalition is deep bulk — buy a playset for under a dollar without a second thought. Bulk commons with narrow synergy homes rarely appreciate, so treat this as a throw-in rather than a pickup with upside.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.