Sunrise Cavalier
Creature — Human Knight
Trample, haste
If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as this creature enters.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25435
Sunrise Cavalier enters swinging — it gives all your creatures haste and vigilance until end of turn, which is a real board-wide alpha-strike enabler on a 3/3 body for four mana. The cost is that the effect is temporary and stapled to a creature that dies to anything, so you're running it for the activated ability, not the stats.
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 |
Sunrise Cavalier is a Commander card through and through — the formats where it's legal (Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage) have no interest in a four-mana 3/3 with a one-shot haste-and-vigilance anthem when those slots are occupied by far more efficient threats. In Commander, the calculus changes: granting your entire board haste and vigilance at instant speed turns a passive board into an attack that your opponents didn't see coming, and it pairs cleanly with token doublers, go-wide strategies, and any commander that dumps a wave of creatures onto the battlefield. It won't headline a deck, but in the right shell it earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Sunrise Cavalier is pure bulk — the kind of card you pick up without thinking about it. Don't expect that to change; the effect is real but narrow enough that demand will stay low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.