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Steel Leaf Paladin

Creature — Elf Knight

First strike
When this creature enters, return a green or white creature you control to its owner's hand.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
common
Set
Planeshift
Price
$0.09
EDHREC rank
#30719
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Steel Leaf Paladin card art
Steel Leaf Paladin lands as a 4/3 first striker that bounces one of your own creatures — and that bounce is the feature, not the bug, when you're replaying something like Zacama, Primal Calamity for another round of enters-the-battlefield triggers. The cost is real: six mana for a vanilla-statted body with a conditional upside is a tough sell in any powered environment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Steel Leaf Paladin is a Commander card through and through — the only format where six-mana creatures with niche ETB synergies get the time and the shell to matter. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but functionally invisible; those formats end before a 4/3 first striker with a bounce clause does anything relevant. Pauper is where the legality is most interesting, but even there, six mana is asking too much for a body this replaceable. Play Steel Leaf Paladin in Commander, specifically in green-white decks that want to rebuy their own ETB threats.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.09 bulk tier

At $0.09, Steel Leaf Paladin is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar box or pick up as a throw-in. That price is stable because demand is narrow; it won't spike unless a specific commander pushes its bounce-your-own-creature angle into the spotlight.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.