Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may move a counter from target creature you control onto a second target creature you control.
Cheer — Whenever one or more creatures you control with counters on them deal combat damage to a player, you may draw a card and proliferate. Do this only once each turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GUW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Final Fantasy Commander
- Price
- $2.96
- EDHREC rank
- #4240
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian lands a free counter on a creature every turn cycle as long as Yuna, Grand Summoner is on the battlefield alongside him — that's a passive +1/+1 engine that costs you nothing beyond the two-card pairing. At three mana for a 3/2 with first strike, the body is already acceptable; the counter generation is the reason you're here.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yuna, Grand Summoner
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian is essentially purpose-built for Yuna, Grand Summoner — the counter trigger fires whenever Yuna attacks or summons an Aeon token, turning the whole gameplan into incidental counters-on-board value that scales with every action Yuna takes.
Terra, Magical Adept
Terra, Magical Adept runs enough instants and sorceries to keep the board busy each turn, and Tidus, Yuna's Guardian slots in as a low-ask counter engine that rewards all that spell activity without demanding dedicated support.
Falco Spara, Pactweaver
Falco Spara, Pactweaver already wants counters on as many creatures as possible to maximize his cast-from-top ability, and Tidus, Yuna's Guardian feeds that density passively — every trigger is one more creature qualifying as a casting resource.
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 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian belongs — the trigger fires repeatedly over a full game, and the multiplayer environment gives you enough turn cycles to accumulate real value before anyone can cleanly answer him. In Vintage and Legacy he is technically legal but entirely unplayed; those formats have no interest in a three-mana 3/2 whose payoff requires a specific partner creature to be present. Oathbreaker is plausible if your planeswalker supports a counters theme, but the format sees too little competitive play to matter much.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.96 cheap tier
At $2.96, Tidus, Yuna's Guardian sits at the low end of the price range for a card with genuine synergy density in a popular commander pairing. That price is likely to hold — demand is anchored to Yuna, Grand Summoner decks specifically, not broad speculation, so there is no ceiling-pressure driving it up and no reason to expect a crash.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Yuna, Grand Summoner
- Terra, Magical Adept
- Falco Spara, Pactweaver
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.