Krile Baldesion
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Wizard
Lifelink
Trace Aether — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may return target creature card with mana value equal to that spell's mana value from your graveyard to your hand. Do this only once each turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Final Fantasy Commander
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #8441
Krile Baldesion is a cheap, sticky value piece that rewards you for going wide with Job counters — the payoff is real card advantage stapled to a low-investment body. In the Alisaie Leveilleur // Alphinaud Leveilleur deck especially, she pulls her weight from turn two onward and never really runs out of things to do.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alisaie Leveilleur // Alphinaud Leveilleur
Krile Baldesion shows up in 35% of Alisaie Leveilleur // Alphinaud Leveilleur decks because the commander's Job-counter distribution is exactly the fuel Krile needs to convert board presence into card advantage.
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed runs a high density of Final Fantasy creatures, and Krile Baldesion fits cleanly into that shell as a low-curve piece that generates incremental value without asking for special infrastructure.
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn cares about accumulating counters and leveraging synergistic creatures across the graveyard and battlefield, making Krile Baldesion a natural inclusion that compounds value as the game progresses.
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 |
Commander is where Krile Baldesion belongs — the 100-card singleton environment gives her time to generate the card advantage she promises, and the Final Fantasy creature density in themed decks is high enough to make her relevant in the mid-game. Legacy and Vintage are both legal formats for her, but the competitive pace of those formats leaves no room for a creature that needs a board state to produce value. Oathbreaker is another reasonable home if the signature spell supports a Job-counter or wide-creature gameplan, though her ceiling there is lower without the redundancy a full Commander deck provides.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Krile Baldesion is bulk — no barrier to entry and no reason to hesitate on picking up copies. Bulk rares from set-specific themes rarely appreciate unless they break into a high-visibility format, so treat this as a cheap staple for the decks that want her, not a speculative hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Alisaie Leveilleur // Alphinaud Leveilleur
- Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
- G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.