Sun Ce, Young Conquerer
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
When Sun Ce enters, you may return target creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $125.53
- EDHREC rank
- #24566
Sun Ce, Young Conquerer lets you cast spells from the top of your library for free whenever you attack with him, which in practice means a resolved Sun Ce snowballs immediately and wins games on the spot alongside Dream Halls or any other big-mana enabler. The effect is genuinely broken — if opponents can't answer him before combat, they lose.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sun Ce, Young Conquerer belongs — the format's singleton rule and slower threat-density mean he can survive long enough to generate absurd value off a single attack. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; those formats close games before a five-mana creature with a delayed payoff ever gets to swing. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning: if your signature spell can be cast for free off the top, a single attack can close the game on the spot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Dream HallsConspiracy TheoristPetals of InsightSun Ce, Young Conquerer
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite storm count
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Sun Ce, Young Conquerer occupies a rare design space — free spells off attack triggers — and nothing fully replicates it at a lower price point. Etali, Primal Conqueror gets closest, exiling from opponents' libraries instead of your own and costing more mana, but it's under $2 and closes games through a similar "attack and cast for free" loop; the trade-off is that Etali's payoff depends on what opponents are running.
Price Context
Current price
$125.53 premium tier
At $125.53, Sun Ce, Young Conquerer sits firmly in premium territory, driven by its Reserved-List-adjacent scarcity as a Portal Three Kingdoms card rather than power-level alone. The price has historically held because the supply is genuinely fixed, but at that entry point you're paying a steep collector tax for an effect that, while strong, isn't format-warping in a 100-card singleton context.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.