Is Timber Paladin good in Commander?

Timber Paladin in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Timber Paladin swings as a 6/6 or larger on a fully enchanted board, and it gets there on a three-mana body that scales automatically with every Aura and Equipment you stack. In Ellivere of the Wild Court decks especially, it's a reliable ground beater that rewards doing what the deck already wants to do.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Ellivere of the Wild Court

38.3% of decks · synergy 0.36

Ellivere of the Wild Court generates Virtues that land on creatures as Auras, and Timber Paladin turns each of those into +1/+1 — it's a free size upgrade on the exact token pipeline Ellivere is already running.

02

Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief

31.7% of decks · synergy 0.31

Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief copies Aura spells targeting other creatures, which means Timber Paladin and Ivy both grow simultaneously — one enchantment spell can put stats on the whole team.

03

Gylwain, Casting Director

30.4% of decks · synergy 0.28

Gylwain, Casting Director hands out Role tokens as creatures enter, and Timber Paladin counts each Role as an enchantment attached to it, climbing in power with every new creature you play.

04

Mazzy, Truesword Paladin

15.0% of decks · synergy 0.15

Mazzy, Truesword Paladin wants a critical mass of Aura targets that can threaten combat, and Timber Paladin pulls double duty as both a reliable enchantment recipient and a creature that gets meaningfully large off a single pump spell.

05

Yenna, Redtooth Regent

16.6% of decks · synergy 0.14

Yenna, Redtooth Regent copies enchantments, and every additional Aura copy that lands on Timber Paladin is another two power and toughness — the copying engine directly feeds the size engine.

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

Timber Paladin is a Commander card through and through — the payoff for loading a creature with Auras and Equipment only matters at a table where games go long enough for that investment to connect. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, a three-mana vanilla beater with a conditional upside doesn't compete with anything in those formats. Commander is the only context where Timber Paladin earns its slot, specifically in Voltron or enchantress strategies that are already generating the enchantments it counts.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Timber Paladin is bulk, and there's no pressure catalyst that would move it — it sees play in a specific Commander niche and nowhere else. Pick it up without hesitation for any enchantress or Voltron build; the price reflects its narrow application, not its in-shell impact.