Knight of the Reliquary
Creature — Human Knight
This creature gets +1/+1 for each land card in your graveyard.
, Sacrifice a Forest or Plains: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Historic Anthology 2
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #5024
Knight of the Reliquary enters play as a creature that converts every Forest and Plains in your graveyard into raw power, then cashes those lands for silver-bullet utility from your library — the bigger it gets, the more it fetches. Commanders like The Necrobloom that want lands hitting the graveyard in bulk turn Knight of the Reliquary into a reliable engine rather than a one-time trick.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Necrobloom
The Necrobloom puts lands into the graveyard as a core function, which means Knight of the Reliquary grows fast and activates repeatedly — each fetch fuels the next. Over 43% of Necrobloom decks include it, and the synergy score of 0.36 makes it one of the clearest auto-includes in that shell.
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster rewards sacrificing lands and drawing off them, so Knight of the Reliquary slots in as both a threat that scales with your land-to-grave count and a toolbox that can pull Maze of Ith or Dark Depths on demand. Nearly a third of Gitrog Monster decks run it for exactly that flexibility.
Tayam, Luminous Enigma
Tayam, Luminous Enigma cares about counters, and Knight of the Reliquary reliably enters with several — enough to fuel Tayam's ability without dedicating extra slots to counter production. Knight of the Reliquary doubles as a land tutor that can find utility pieces Tayam can't recur directly.
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, Knight of the Reliquary is a staple in any Abzan or Naya deck that moves lands through the graveyard — the combination of a growing body and repeatable land tutoring is hard to find on a single card. In Legacy, it sees niche play in Lands and Death and Taxes variants where fetching Karakas or Maze of Ith is worth a three-mana investment, though the format's speed limits how often it resolves meaningfully. Modern is theoretically legal but the card has effectively aged out of competitive contention there — the power bar has risen past what a three-mana creature that doesn't immediately affect the board can offer. Vintage allows it but the format has no interest in a setup-dependent creature.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Knight of the Reliquary isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the most accurate number before buying. It has been reprinted multiple times, which has historically kept the price accessible relative to its power level — worth confirming before assuming it's expensive.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.