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Lena, Selfless Champion

Legendary Creature — Human Knight

When Lena enters, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each nontoken creature you control.
Sacrifice Lena: Creatures you control with power less than Lena's power gain indestructible until end of turn.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Jumpstart
Price
$0.38
EDHREC rank
#8321
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Lena, Selfless Champion card art
Lena, Selfless Champion enters swinging — she makes a Soldier token for every nontoken creature you control, then you can sacrifice her to give those tokens indestructible until end of turn, turning a board wipe into a one-sided massacre. The cost is real: she's a six-mana sorcery-speed play that requires a healthy board to pay off, and she does nothing in an empty field. Winota, Joiner of Forces cheats her in for free and immediately justifies the slot; Nim Deathmantle turns her sacrifice loop into an engine rather than a one-time trick.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Winota, Joiner of Forces

Winota, Joiner of Forces

70.2% of decks · synergy 0.67

Winota, Joiner of Forces gets Lena, Selfless Champion into play without paying her six-mana cost, and the Human creature type means Lena immediately floods the board with Soldier tokens that fuel future Winota attacks — it's a self-reinforcing loop that shows up in over 70% of Winota lists.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Lena, Selfless Champion earns her keep — token-wide protection at instant speed is a genuinely powerful effect in a format where board wipes are a staple answer, and her enter-the-battlefield token generation scales with the creature density white go-wide decks already want. Outside Commander, she's legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but those 60-card formats demand efficiency she can't deliver at six mana with no immediate spell-like impact. She's a build-around piece, not a standalone threat, so the more redundancy and synergy a format allows, the better she looks — and Commander provides both.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.38 bulk tier

At $0.38, Lena, Selfless Champion sits firmly in bulk territory, which means the price floor is already here and there's little downside to picking up copies. She does exactly enough in the right shell to stay in print demand without climbing, so expect this to stay a bulk rare indefinitely.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.