Red XIII, Proud Warrior
Legendary Creature — Beast Warrior
Vigilance, trample
Other modified creatures you control have vigilance and trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Cosmo Memory — When Red XIII enters, return target Aura or Equipment card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Final Fantasy Commander
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #4395
Red XIII, Proud Warrior enters with a pile of +1/+1 counters scaled to the number of creatures you control, then swings immediately thanks to haste — the payoff is front-loaded and unconditional. The cost is a five-mana investment for a card that does nothing if the board is empty, so context is everything.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
Red XIII, Proud Warrior appears in over 83% of Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER decks because Cloud rewards you for fielding multiple creatures with counters, and Red XIII enters already loaded — dropping into a full board means a massive beater that immediately pressures life totals alongside Cloud's own combat payoffs.
Chishiro, the Shattered Blade
Chishiro, the Shattered Blade generates Spirit tokens whenever an aura or equipment enters, so the counters Red XIII, Proud Warrior arrives with can be redistributed and multiplied across the token army Chishiro naturally produces.
Stangg, Echo Warrior
Stangg, Echo Warrior copies spells and permanents to double up on value, and Red XIII, Proud Warrior is exactly the kind of enters-with-counters threat that benefits most from being copied — two instances of a creature whose size scales with your board is a fast clock.
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede cares about creatures with counters attacking, so Red XIII, Proud Warrior — which arrives swinging on a board already stacked with creatures — slots directly into the triggers Slinza wants to generate every combat.
Tifa, Martial Artist
Tifa, Martial Artist rewards you for having multiple large creatures with counters in play, and Red XIII, Proud Warrior provides a reliably beefy body with haste, giving Tifa another threat to fuel her damage-stacking gameplan.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Red XIII, Proud Warrior belongs — a 100-card, multiplayer format with long games and wide boards is exactly the environment that makes a creature whose size scales with your army threatening. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically true but practically irrelevant; those formats are too fast and too efficient for a five-mana vanilla-ish creature with no disruption attached. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where Red XIII, Proud Warrior could see play, though again the synergy-dependent ceiling matters more in a wider-board build. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Red XIII, Proud Warrior is firmly bulk — easy to pick up and easy to slot in without budget consideration. Bulk mythics from crossover sets can move if the associated commander spikes in popularity, but at its current price this is a throw-it-in, no-regrets inclusion.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.