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Swashbuckler Extraordinaire

Creature — Dragon Rogue Warrior

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever you attack, you may sacrifice one or more Treasures. When you do, up to that many target creatures gain double strike until end of turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4419
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Swashbuckler Extraordinaire card art
Swashbuckler Extraordinaire turns excess creatures into a haste-granting engine — goad two of your own attackers by tapping two other creatures you control, which is backbreaking in token and creature-heavy shells that already flood the board. The cost is real: four mana and a tap investment means slower tables will answer it before it pays off, but in the right shell it outperforms anything near its price tag. Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut and Deadeye Navigator both point to the same conclusion: this card belongs in decks that generate disposable bodies, not ones counting on every creature to hold the line.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ganax, Astral HunterAcolyte of Bahamut

Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut

47.7% of decks · synergy 0.46

Ganax, Astral Hunter // Acolyte of Bahamut floods the board with Treasure tokens from Dragon ETBs, and Swashbuckler Extraordinaire converts those extra creatures into haste grants, letting the big Dragons that just entered swing before opponents can respond.

02
Jolene, the Plunder Queen

Jolene, the Plunder Queen

45.5% of decks · synergy 0.44

Jolene, the Plunder Queen rewards players for attacking with Treasures, and Swashbuckler Extraordinaire lets her tap those same Treasures to give attackers haste — so the deck's resource base does double duty as both acceleration and a speed boost.

03
Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

24.9% of decks · synergy 0.24

Olivia, Opulent Outlaw builds wide with Vampires and produces Treasure tokens from combat, giving Swashbuckler Extraordinaire a steady supply of tapable bodies to push freshly played threats into combat the same turn they land.

04
Lathliss, Dragon Queen

Lathliss, Dragon Queen

22.5% of decks · synergy 0.20

Lathliss, Dragon Queen multiplies Dragon bodies with every nontoken Dragon that enters, and Swashbuckler Extraordinaire converts those extra Dragons into haste sources so the whole army can attack without waiting a full turn cycle.

05
Delina, Wild Mage

Delina, Wild Mage

23.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Delina, Wild Mage creates temporary creature tokens on attack, and Swashbuckler Extraordinaire lets those tokens serve a second purpose — tapping them to grant haste to the next threat before they vanish at end of turn.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Swashbuckler Extraordinaire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play — the 100-card singleton format's token and creature-token synergy decks are exactly the environment where its tap-to-goad-and-grant-haste ability finds consistent targets. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically castable but competes with a density of faster, more efficient threats and enablers that make a four-mana creature with no immediate board protection a non-starter for competitive lists. Oathbreaker is the most realistic non-Commander home, particularly in aggressive red or Gruul builds that go wide quickly. Outside these formats, Swashbuckler Extraordinaire simply isn't legal, so Commander remains the clear context for picking one up.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Swashbuckler Extraordinaire isn't confirmed in our current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its niche role as a synergy piece in creature-token and Dragon shells, it tends to float at a low price point — if you're building toward any of the top commander pairings, it's worth grabbing a copy sooner rather than waiting.

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