Righteous Avengers
Creature — Human Soldier
Plainswalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Plains.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $1.88
- EDHREC rank
- #30665
Righteous Avengers enters the battlefield and immediately threatens a board-wide tap or a wave of 1/1 tokens, depending on how many creatures you control. Five mana is a real ask, but the payoff is a two-mode threat that demands an answer the turn it lands.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Righteous Avengers earns its slot — go-wide token strategies and vigilance-matters builds can trigger both modes reliably, and a five-mana 3/4 with immediate impact doesn't feel out of place at a typical EDH table. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but irrelevant; those formats won't spend five mana on a creature that doesn't win the game outright. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth mentioning: at common, Righteous Avengers competes in white weenie and tokens shells where the tap effect doubles as removal and the token mode builds a board, though the mana cost is steep for the format's curve.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.88 cheap tier
At $1.88, Righteous Avengers sits in the affordable range — cheap enough to slot in without a second thought. Demand is niche enough that the price is unlikely to spike, so it holds value as a casual pickup rather than a card you need to chase.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.