Mercenary Knight
Creature — Human Mercenary Knight
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you discard a creature card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Portal
- Price
- $3.19
- EDHREC rank
- #29261
Mercenary Knight enters as a 3/3 for two mana — above-rate body — but the downside is real: you discard a card on cast, so you're trading card advantage for stats. It's a good deal only if your deck actively wants cards in the graveyard or is already flooding on resources.
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 |
Mercenary Knight is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially zero competitive play in any of them. In Commander, the discard cost is steeper than in other formats because card advantage is already scarce across a 99-card singleton deck, and a 3/3 body does almost nothing at a table of four. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient two-drops, so Mercenary Knight doesn't make the cut there either. It's a bulk curiosity, not a format staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$3.19 cheap tier
At $3.19, Mercenary Knight sits at the low end of the market, but that price is driven by scarcity of old printings rather than demand. Don't expect the price to reflect actual playability — it's a collector's pickup, not a staple.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.