Moorish Cavalry
Creature — Human Knight
Trample
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- special
- Set
- Time Spiral Timeshifted
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #29986
Moorish Cavalry is a 4/4 first strike for five mana with no other text — a vanilla beatstick in an era where that rate is simply not competitive. Better creatures exist at every point on the curve, and there is no deck that needs this one.
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 |
Moorish Cavalry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a 4/4 first strike for five mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no keyword package, and no synergy text is unplayable — the format's power ceiling is too high. In Pauper, where every mana matters, a vanilla five-drop doesn't make the cut when commons like Myr Enforcer and Gurmag Angler exist. Legacy and Vintage wouldn't touch it. Moorish Cavalry belongs in curated nostalgia collections, not competitive or even casual tuned lists.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Moorish Cavalry sits firmly in bulk territory and will stay there — demand is negligible and supply is abundant. Buy it only if you're completing an old-school set or building a deliberately vintage-era collection.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.