Rowan's Battleguard
Creature — Human Knight
First strike
As long as you control a Rowan planeswalker, this creature gets +3/+0.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #29643
Rowan's Battleguard doubles the power of your planeswalkers' activated abilities — every loyalty ability fires twice for the price of one activation. The catch is a 3R casting cost that competes with your planeswalkers themselves, so it earns a slot only in decks running enough loyalty payoffs to make that doubling consistently backbreaking.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rowan's Battleguard is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander and Oathbreaker card in practice — the doubling effect only matters when you're reliably landing planeswalkers, and those formats give you the density to do it. In competitive Constructed formats the four-mana 3/3 body is too slow and too fragile to justify the slot when faster, more resilient payoffs exist. Commander is where Rowan's Battleguard finds its home, specifically in superfriends builds that chain multiple planeswalker activations per turn and can exploit the doubling at scale.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Rowan's Battleguard sits firmly in bulk territory — safe to pick up as a throw-in with any order. Bulk rares with narrow conditions rarely climb unless a breakout commander pushes them, so don't expect movement, but the acquisition cost is low enough that it's never a wrong buy for the decks that want it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.