Redemptor Dreadnought
Artifact Creature — Astartes Dreadnought
Fallen Warrior — As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Trample
Plasma Incinerator — Whenever this creature attacks, if a card is exiled with it, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the power of the exiled card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #16777
Redemptor Dreadnought puts a 12/12 trampler on the board for three mana — the catch is tapping three untapped creatures you control as an additional cost. In the right deck that cost is irrelevant or actively useful; in the wrong one it's a do-nothing brick.
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 |
Redemptor Dreadnought is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a creature that requires three tapped bodies when those formats can win faster with less setup. In Commander, the tap cost synergizes with commanders that want activated abilities, untap effects, or sacrifice fodder — think Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, Krenko, Mob Boss, or any aristocrats shell generating tokens to burn.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Redemptor Dreadnought is pure bulk — you're not paying for the card, you're paying for the shipping. That price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile combo build breaks it into mainstream Commander circulation.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.