Plover Knights
Creature — Kithkin Knight
Flying, first strike
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #27502
Plover Knights is a five-mana 3/3 with flying and first strike — a statline that was middling fifteen years ago and is outclassed now. Pay five mana for a creature that doesn't enter with an effect, doesn't scale, and dies to every removal spell in the format, and you've lost a card for almost nothing.
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 |
Plover Knights is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Pauper, where the card pool is constrained, a flying first striker at common at least exists on the axis — though cheaper, more efficient options make it a stretch even there. In Commander, five mana for a vanilla-adjacent 3/3 with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no late-game relevance is a hard sell in any 100-card singleton list. Legacy and Vintage don't want Plover Knights at any cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Plover Knights is deep bulk — the kind of card that rounds out a trade binder rather than a decklist. Don't expect that price to move; demand isn't there to push it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.