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Maja, Bretagard Protector

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

Other creatures you control get +1/+1.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 white Human Warrior creature token.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{G}{W}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Kaldheim
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#3149
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Maja, Bretagard Protector card art
Maja, Bretagard Protector turns every land drop into a 1/1 Human token and pumps your entire board whenever that token enters — five mana for a self-sustaining go-wide engine that scales every turn you hit a land. The cost is real: five mana and two colors means she's a mid-game play, not an early stabilizer, and she does nothing if your land drops dry up. Pair her with Kodama of the East Tree or Kyler, Sigardian Emissary and the token chain becomes genuinely hard to stop.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kyler, Sigardian Emissary

Kyler, Sigardian Emissary

51.1% of decks · synergy 0.41

Kyler, Sigardian Emissary stacks +1/+1 counters on himself for every Human that enters — and Maja, Bretagard Protector produces a Human token on every land drop, which means each land you play grows Kyler and then buffs the whole board twice over. At 51% inclusion this is the home for Maja, and the synergy number shows it.

02
Emmara, Soul of the Accord

Emmara, Soul of the Accord

48.6% of decks · synergy 0.39

Emmara, Soul of the Accord wants to tap for tokens repeatedly, and Maja, Bretagard Protector rewards each of those tokens entering with a board-wide pump. The token density in Emmara lists makes Maja's anthem trigger fire constantly rather than once per turn cycle.

03
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

35.0% of decks · synergy 0.33

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand dumps a wave of Sand Warrior tokens into play off a single land trigger, and Maja, Bretagard Protector turns that mass entry into a proportionally massive anthem. The two cards are doing the same thing — converting land count into token count — so they stack rather than compete.

04
Katilda, Dawnhart Prime

Katilda, Dawnhart Prime

40.7% of decks · synergy 0.31

Katilda, Dawnhart Prime taps each Human you control for green mana, so the 1/1 Humans Maja, Bretagard Protector generates on each land drop double as a mana engine that accelerates into more land plays. The loop is tight: more Humans mean more mana, more mana means more spells, more land drops mean more Humans.

05
Kudo, King Among Bears

Kudo, King Among Bears

37.6% of decks · synergy 0.28

Kudo, King Among Bears gives all your creatures with power 2 or less a free attack trigger, and the 1/1 tokens Maja, Bretagard Protector produces qualify on entry — turning a passive token-generation engine into an aggressive swarm that draws cards or generates pressure every combat.

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 the correct home for Maja, Bretagard Protector — a five-mana legendary that generates incremental value is built for a 40-life multiplayer format where the game runs long enough to capitalize on every land drop. In Modern and Pioneer she's technically legal but practically unplayable; five mana for a token-per-land-drop effect is far too slow against decks that are already winning on turn three or four. Legacy and Vintage follow the same logic at an even steeper disadvantage — the competition for five-mana slots in those formats is absurd. Oathbreaker functions similarly to Commander for her purposes, though the smaller deck size and faster clock make her a fringe option there rather than a staple.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Maja, Bretagard Protector is bulk — you're picking her up for essentially nothing relative to the impact she has in token and Human-typal lists. Bulk rares with this level of synergy density tend to stay in the floor range unless a reprint or a breakout Commander release drives demand, so grab copies now if you're building into any of her top archetypes.

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