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Meneldor, Swift Savior

Legendary Creature — Bird Soldier

Flying
Whenever Meneldor deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then return it to the battlefield under your control.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#7558
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Meneldor, Swift Savior card art
Meneldor, Swift Savior is a free flicker engine stapled to a 3/2 flier — every time it attacks, you blink a creature you control and return it at end of combat, resetting enters-the-battlefield triggers at no mana cost. The cost is real: the effect is combat-dependent, so decks that don't attack reliably, like Vannifar, Evolved Enigma's tap-to-morph piles, get less mileage than aggressive fliers shells where Aurelia, the Warleader is already swinging every turn.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

35.8% of decks · synergy 0.35

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma's whole identity is resetting creatures for value, and Meneldor, Swift Savior adds a combat-step flicker that doesn't cost a tap or a morph — it's redundancy that pressures opponents from a different angle.

02
Cynette, Jelly Drover

Cynette, Jelly Drover

35.7% of decks · synergy 0.35

Cynette, Jelly Drover generates tokens on creature ETBs, so Meneldor, Swift Savior flickering any creature each combat is a repeating token factory that scales with however many attackers you can field.

03
Kastral, the Windcrested

Kastral, the Windcrested

22.6% of decks · synergy 0.21

Kastral, the Windcrested cares about Birds specifically, and Meneldor, Swift Savior is both a Bird itself and a way to reuse Bird ETB triggers every combat step without spending additional mana.

04
Círdan the Shipwright

Círdan the Shipwright

16.7% of decks · synergy 0.16

Círdan the Shipwright rewards you for running high-power creatures, and Meneldor, Swift Savior's flicker loop keeps recycling those ETBs while contributing its own evasive body to the attack step Círdan wants.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Meneldor, Swift Savior earns its slot — the format's longer games give repeated attack steps time to compound, and 99-card decks are full of ETB creatures begging to be blinked. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but effectively irrelevant; those formats end too fast for a 3/2 that needs to attack to do anything, and the competition at three mana is brutal. Modern is the one constructed format worth a passing glance — flicker synergies exist and the card is legal — but the payoff isn't close to format-playable when Ephemerate does more for less. Stick to Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

110 decks
Meneldor, Swift SaviorAurelia, the Warleader

Meneldor, Swift SaviorAurelia, the Warleader

Infinite blinking; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Meneldor, Swift Savior is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk rares with genuine combo potential tend to stay cheap until a specific deck breaks them wide open, so grab copies now if any of the synergy commanders interest you.

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