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Puresteel Paladin

Creature — Human Knight

Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may draw a card.
Metalcraft — Equipment you control have equip {0} as long as you control three or more artifacts.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
New Phyrexia
Price
$1.72
EDHREC rank
#624
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Puresteel Paladin card art
Puresteel Paladin draws a card for every equipment you cast and makes all of them free once you hit three artifacts — that's an engine, not a value piece. The Crackdown Construct combo (equip a zero-cost equipment repeatedly, stack triggers, swing for lethal) and the sheer card velocity it provides in Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER shells make this one of the most efficient two-drops in Commander.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

96.0% of decks · synergy 0.87

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER is the apex home for Puresteel Paladin — the Materia system rewards flooding the board with cheap equipment, and Puresteel turns that flood into a card-neutral or card-positive engine that enables the Crackdown Construct kill out of nowhere.

04
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal

87.9% of decks · synergy 0.79

Dogmeat, Ever Loyal dumps aura and equipment cards from the graveyard onto the battlefield, and Puresteel Paladin ensures that the equipment entering play also replaces itself so the hand never runs dry.

05
Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale

Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale

82.5% of decks · synergy 0.79

Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale already draws on equip with Knights, but Puresteel Paladin adds a redundant draw trigger and, critically, metalcraft makes equip costs disappear — letting Syr Gwyn push all that mana into threats instead.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Puresteel Paladin is a staple in any white deck that runs fifteen or more equipment — the metalcraft threshold is easy to hit and the payoff is an engine that makes artifact-heavy decks go from fair to explosive. In Legacy, it anchors dedicated Cheerios combo lists that chain zero-mana equipment to draw the entire deck and win through Grapeshot or similar, making it a genuine tournament piece rather than a casual card. Modern sees fringe play in the same Cheerios shell, though the format's speed and interaction density make the combo harder to protect. Vintage is legal but irrelevant — the power ceiling there renders a two-mana creature engine a curiosity. Puresteel Paladin doesn't touch Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.72 cheap tier

At $1.72, Puresteel Paladin is cheap for the workload it does — a card that anchors combo lists in Legacy and serves as a near-auto-include in several of Commander's most popular equipment commanders has no business sitting under two dollars. Reprint history has kept the price suppressed, so this is a safe pickup at current rates without treating it as anything more than an affordable staple.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.