Proven Combatant
Creature — Human Warrior
Eternalize 
(, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Warrior with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #27488
Proven Combatant is a 2/2 for two mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no keywords, and no upside beyond a cycling ability that costs four mana to draw a single card. The rate is unplayable in every competitive context — you run this only if you specifically need a cheap cycler in a deck that rewards discarding or cares about creatures cycling.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Proven Combatant is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality doesn't imply playability. In Pauper it sits at the absolute bottom of the commons pile — a 2/2 for two with a four-mana cycle can't compete with the format's efficient threats and draw spells. In Commander it occasionally finds a home in cycling-matters decks like Gavi, Nest Warden or Anikthea, Hand of Erebos builds that want density of cyclers, not raw card quality. Every other format should ignore it entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Proven Combatant is deep bulk — the kind of card that comes in draft chaff lots by the hundred. It holds no monetary value and no reason to expect that to change.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.