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Oath of Gideon

Legendary Enchantment

When Oath of Gideon enters, create two 1/1 white Kor Ally creature tokens.
Each planeswalker you control enters with an additional loyalty counter on it.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Oath of the Gatewatch Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7179
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Oath of Gideon card art
Oath of Gideon enters and immediately puts two 1/1 Soldier tokens on the battlefield, then permanently grants your planeswalkers an extra loyalty counter whenever they enter — that's a real, lasting effect for a three-mana enchantment. In superfriends shells, especially alongside Commodore Guff and Jace, Cunning Castaway, that bonus loyalty accelerates ultimate timelines by a full turn and is worth the slot on that merit alone.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Commodore Guff

Commodore Guff

69.1% of decks · synergy 0.67

Commodore Guff's ability to add counters and draw cards off planeswalker count makes Oath of Gideon a natural fit — every planeswalker you cast enters with an extra loyalty counter, pushing them closer to ultimates faster and synergizing directly with Guff's counter-manipulation engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Oath of Gideon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is unambiguously Commander. In Oathbreaker it earns consideration as direct support for any planeswalker strategy, shaving a turn off ultimate timelines in a format built around them. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the card sees virtually no play — competitive planeswalker decks in those formats don't want a three-mana enchantment that does nothing the turn it arrives beyond two small tokens. Commander is where the persistent loyalty bonus compounds across a full superfriends board and makes Oath of Gideon genuinely worth a deck slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

161 decks
Jace, Cunning CastawayNicol Bolas, Dragon-GodOath of Gideon

Jace, Cunning CastawayNicol Bolas, Dragon-GodOath of Gideon

Exile all permanents opponents control; Infinite card draw; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker; Mass Land Denial

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't available for Oath of Gideon at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current buylist and retail figures. Given its narrow appeal outside Commander superfriends builds, it has historically been an affordable pickup — verify before buying in case recent demand has shifted that.

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