Sky-Blessed Samurai
Enchantment Creature — Human Samurai
Affinity for enchantments (This spell costs 
less to cast for each enchantment you control.)
Flying
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #16104
Sky-Blessed Samurai enters as a flying Samurai whose power scales with the number of other Samurai and Warriors you control, making it a genuine aerial threat rather than a fixed stat block. The cost is that it does nothing outside creature-type synergy shells — in a generic white deck it's just an overcosted vanilla, but in Raiyuu, Storm's Edge it's exactly the kind of wide-board payoff the archetype wants.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge triggers an extra combat step whenever a lone Samurai or Warrior attacks, and Sky-Blessed Samurai's power scales directly off the Samurai count you're assembling to fuel that engine — more triggers means more creatures means a bigger evasive beater closing out the game in the air.
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 |
Sky-Blessed Samurai is a Commander card through and through. Tribal payoffs that ask you to go wide with a specific creature type are tailor-made for the 100-card singleton format, where commanders like Raiyuu, Storm's Edge let you build a critical mass of Samurai and Warriors. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, it's unplayable — those formats have no Samurai tribal infrastructure and no interest in a conditional P/T payoff at this mana cost. Pioneer is the same story: the creature type lacks support. Oathbreaker is the one fringe home outside Commander, but only in the narrowest tribal builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Sky-Blessed Samurai is bulk — the price of a card whose power is entirely format- and commander-dependent. It's a stable bulk rare: tribal staples in niche archetypes don't spike unless the deck breaks into mainstream popularity, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.