Prince Imrahil the Fair
Legendary Creature — Human Noble
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #3581
Prince Imrahil the Fair enters and immediately starts generating tokens whenever nontoken creatures you control die — payoff and board presence in the same card. At five mana in Azorius colors, the cost is real, but Éowyn, Shieldmaiden decks eat up every token trigger he produces and rarely pass on him.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden cares about amassing a creature count before combat, and Prince Imrahil the Fair feeds that engine directly — every nontoken creature death becomes a fresh Human Knight body that counts toward her legendary triggers.
Aragorn, King of Gondor
Aragorn, King of Gondor wants a wide board of humans and legends to keep opponents tapped out, and Prince Imrahil the Fair replenishes that board at instant speed whenever your creatures die.
The Council of Four
The Council of Four rewards you for flooding the board with creatures across multiple card types, and Prince Imrahil the Fair converts any sacrifice or combat death into a free token that feeds right back into that engine.
Marneus Calgar
Marneus Calgar draws a card for each nontoken creature entering the battlefield, so every token Prince Imrahil the Fair generates on a creature's death is also a card — the two cards create a self-sustaining loop of bodies and gas.
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher triggers off creatures entering under your control, and Prince Imrahil the Fair guarantees a fresh creature enters any time a nontoken dies, giving Sokrates a reliable stream of triggers without any additional setup.
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 Prince Imrahil the Fair actually lives — a 100-card singleton format full of creature-heavy strategies means his death-trigger replacement effect fires constantly, and five mana is acceptable for a persistent engine piece. In Legacy and Vintage he's technically legal but competes against a card pool so efficient that a five-mana do-nothing-immediately creature is never the right call. Modern is the same story: the format's creature threats are cheaper and more impactful, so Prince Imrahil the Fair has no competitive foothold there either. Oathbreaker could find niche use in token-adjacent strategies, though his mana cost relative to oathbreaker restrictions makes him a second-tier include at best.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Prince Imrahil the Fair is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking about it. That price reflects broad casual demand without any competitive pull, so it's unlikely to move meaningfully unless a new token commander pushes him into spike territory.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.