Opal Avenger
Enchantment
When you have 10 or less life, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/5 Soldier creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #30686
Opal Avenger turns a life-total threshold into a surprise 3/3 creature — free, permanent, and triggered at your opponent's initiative. The cost is real: you have to be losing badly enough to drop below half your starting life, which means it's a reactive card in a format that rewards being proactive.
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 |
In Commander, Opal Avenger occupies a niche role in lifegain-matters or pillow-fort decks that expect to absorb damage before stabilizing — Oloro, Ageless Ascetic shells or Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper builds that want bodies on board when life totals get volatile. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; the effect is too slow and too conditional for those formats' 20-life clocks. Opal Avenger is effectively a Commander-only card, and even there it earns a slot only in decks specifically rewarding the below-half-life position.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Opal Avenger is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a one-of experiment without financial risk. Demand is too narrow to expect the price to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.