Saradoc, Master of Buckland
Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen
Whenever Saradoc or another nontoken creature you control with power 2 or less enters, create a 1/1 white Halfling creature token.
Tap two other untapped Halflings you control: Saradoc gets +2/+0 and gains lifelink until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $1.78
- EDHREC rank
- #9126
Saradoc, Master of Buckland puts a 2/2 token into play every time you attack with a Halfling, then untaps all your Halflings after combat — that's an engine stapled to a three-mana legendary. Delney, Streetwise Lookout doubles the triggered ability, turning each attacking Halfling into two tokens and burying opponents in bodies before they can stabilize.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Delney, Streetwise Lookout
Delney, Streetwise Lookout doubles every 'whenever you attack with a creature with power 2 or less' trigger, which means Saradoc, Master of Buckland produces two tokens per attacking Halfling instead of one — the math on that snowball gets out of hand by turn five.
Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer
Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer tutors Saradoc, Master of Buckland directly onto the battlefield at instant speed, letting the token engine come online a turn early and dodging countermagic in the process.
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
Arabella, Abandoned Doll wants a wide board of small creatures to maximize her damage triggers, and Saradoc, Master of Buckland supplies that board for free on every combat step.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Saradoc, Master of Buckland lives — the token production and untap effect scale cleanly into a 100-card singleton environment where a single combat step can generate enough bodies to threaten lethal. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but far too slow and narrow to compete against the formats' actual power level. Oathbreaker is the one alternative worth considering if you're building around Halfling tribal, since the smaller game size lets the engine come online before opponents assemble an answer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.78 cheap tier
At $1.78, Saradoc, Master of Buckland sits at the low end of mythic rare pricing, which reflects its format limitations more than its ceiling in the right shell. The price is stable for now — it does exactly one narrow thing extremely well, and that keeps it from climbing but also from cratering.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.