Paladin en-Vec
Creature — Human Knight
First strike, protection from black and from red (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black or red.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Exodus
- Price
- $0.65
- EDHREC rank
- #21672
Paladin en-Vec is a three-mana 2/2 with first strike, protection from black, and protection from red — a resilient blocker and attacker that blanks two of the most common removal colors in the format. The double-protection package is genuinely strong, but the body underneath it is too small to matter in most Commander games where the board goes wide fast.
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 |
In Commander, Paladin en-Vec occupies a narrow role in white-heavy aggro or Voltron lists that want a protected early beater — the protection from black and red stops a wide swath of spot removal, but a 2/2 rarely survives the scale of 40-life multiplayer. In Legacy and Vintage, it simply doesn't compete with the power level of threats and interaction available; the stat line was never good enough for those formats even at their most creature-light. Modern likewise has left Paladin en-Vec behind — three mana for a 2/2 with conditional protection doesn't clear the rate bar set by that format's threats. It's legal in Oathbreaker where a white aggro plan can occasionally make the protections relevant, but again the body is the ceiling.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.65 bulk tier
At $0.65, Paladin en-Vec sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects the card's actual demand. Casual appeal keeps it from hitting true penny status, but there's no pressure on this price to move in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.