Midnight Duelist
Creature — Human Soldier
Protection from Vampires
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #29451
Midnight Duelist is a one-mana 1/2 with protection from Vampires — a hyper-specific defensive ability that shuts down exactly one tribe in exactly one matchup. Outside of a Vampire-heavy meta, this is a blank body that earns no slot in any deck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Midnight Duelist is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, the only context where it earns a slot is a dedicated hate-bear shell facing persistent Vampire tribal at the table — Edgar Markov is popular enough that this comes up, but one meta card this narrow rarely justifies the roster spot. In Pauper it's a common, but a 1/2 for one with a situational keyword trades poorly and doesn't fit any established archetype. Legacy and Vintage have access to so many strictly better one-drops that Midnight Duelist never touches those formats competitively.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Midnight Duelist is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a bulk box and rarely leaves it. There's no demand driver that would push this price, so treat it as a near-zero cost inclusion if the niche somehow fits your specific meta.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.