Minion of the Mighty
Creature — Kobold
Menace
Pack tactics — Whenever this creature attacks, if you attacked with creatures with total power 6 or greater this combat, you may put a Dragon creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.91
- EDHREC rank
- #5929
Minion of the Mighty lets you cheat a Dragon directly into play off a one-mana 0/1 body — the payoff is enormous, the setup cost is almost nothing. In any deck where attacking with multiple Dragons on the same turn is realistic, this card earns its slot immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Lathliss, Dragon Queen generates Dragon tokens whenever you cast a Dragon, which means Minion of the Mighty's attack trigger — cheating in a Dragon for free — immediately feeds back into Lathliss's own engine and creates a snowballing board.
Rivaz of the Claw
Rivaz of the Claw makes Dragons uncounterable and recurs them from the graveyard, so the Dragon you slam into play with Minion of the Mighty is protected on arrival and recoverable if it dies — Rivaz turns the cheat into a repeatable resource.
Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut
Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut generates Treasure when Dragons enter the battlefield, so every Dragon Minion of the Mighty cheats into play doubles as ramp — the combination turns a single attack step into both a threat and mana acceleration.
Atarka, World Render
Atarka, World Render demands a Dragon-heavy attack to make double strike matter across the board, which is exactly the condition Minion of the Mighty rewards — attack with enough Dragons and you're getting a free threat alongside Atarka's double-damage swing.
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm copies every nontoken Dragon that enters, so the Dragon Minion of the Mighty cheats into play immediately becomes two — the free entry point doubles as a trigger for Miirym's signature effect.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Minion of the Mighty is a Commander card through and through — the free-cheat effect only scales when your deck is built around attacking with multiple Dragons, which is a strategy that exists almost exclusively in the 100-card singleton format. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but irrelevant: competitive Dragon lists in those formats want to cast their Dragons efficiently, not jump through the hoop of assembling a multicard attack condition for a single free entry. Vintage is the same story — the format's broken enough that a conditional one-shot cheat effect doesn't register. Commander is where Minion of the Mighty lives, and specifically in Dragon tribal builds where the attack condition is met naturally and repeatedly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.91 bulk tier
At $0.91, Minion of the Mighty sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a genuine roleplayer in Dragon tribal Commander decks. It's an easy include at that price — no Dragon deck running red should hesitate over the cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen
- Rivaz of the Claw
- Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut
- Atarka, World Render
- Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.