Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo
Legendary Creature — Fox Samurai
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to Opal-Eye instead.
: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Opal-Eye this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $3.60
- EDHREC rank
- #16902
Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo redirects damage from your other creatures and planeswalkers to itself, and can pay W to prevent 1 of that redirected damage — a reliable damage sponge for protection-focused white shells. The cost is a 1/4 body at three mana that does nothing proactive, so you're buying a defensive piece, not a threat.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo actually earns a slot — planeswalker-heavy decks and voltron builds that want to keep a key creature alive through combat assign it real work, and the activated prevention scales well in a format where single hits can be enormous. Outside Commander, Opal-Eye sees effectively no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage; those formats move too fast and too efficiently for a three-mana do-nothing blocker to matter. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning, since protecting a planeswalker is the entire point of the format — Opal-Eye is a natural fit there.
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Price Context
Current price
$3.60 cheap tier
At $3.60, Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo sits at the low end of the cheap tier, which is roughly right for a narrow Commander role-player with a small audience. Demand is stable rather than growing, so the price is unlikely to spike — pick it up when you need it, no urgency required.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.