Takeno's Cavalry
Creature — Human Samurai Archer
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking Spirit.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #25708
Takeno's Cavalry is a 3/2 for three mana that gains bushido 1 whenever it blocks or is blocked — a marginal combat bonus on a body that's already undersized for Commander. It's a bulk common for a reason: the payoff never justifies the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Takeno's Cavalry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Pauper, where commons compete on strict efficiency, a 3/2 for three with a conditional +1/+1 bonus doesn't clear the bar — better aggressive two- and three-drops exist at every turn. In Commander, the bushido trigger fires only in one-on-one blocks, which makes it nearly invisible in a multiplayer game where combat math rarely works in its favor. Legacy and Vintage simply have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent three-drop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Takeno's Cavalry sits firmly in bulk territory — the price of a card that fills out a set's common slot without finding a home in competitive lists. Bulk commons don't appreciate; this one holds its price only in the sense that a floor of a dime is already the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.