Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Legendary Creature — Human Monk
Reach
Tadeas has hexproof unless it's attacking.
Whenever a creature you control with reach attacks, untap it and it can't be blocked by creatures with greater power this combat.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Universes Within
- Price
- $1.29
- EDHREC rank
- #12037
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant gives you free mana every time a creature with power 4 or greater attacks — untapping a land per swing adds up fast in any stompy shell. The cost is a narrow creature type and a two-card dependency, but Polukranos Reborn and anything above that power threshold makes the payoff immediate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Polukranos Reborn
Polukranos Reborn attacks as a 4/5 on turn four and flips into a saga that keeps producing large bodies — every one of those attacks triggers Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant, turning the deck's natural game plan into a mana engine with no extra investment.
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 |
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant is a Commander card through and through — the ability rewards a wide board of large attackers over many turns, which is exactly what the format enables. In Legacy and Vintage, where the card is technically legal, there's no realistic shell that wants a three-mana do-nothing-until-combat creature when faster engines exist. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multiplayer pace that a dedicated high-power aggro build could extract value, but the 99-card format remains the natural home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.29 cheap tier
At $1.29, Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to pick up on spec for any big-creature Commander build without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, but it's also not going lower from here.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Polukranos Reborn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.