Valeron Wardens
Creature — Human Monk
Renown 2 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put two +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes renowned.)
Whenever a creature you control becomes renowned, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Origins
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #22568
Valeron Wardens draws you a card every time a creature with power 4 or greater enters under your control — a repeatable engine that costs almost nothing to operate once it's on board. The cost is three mana for a 2/4 body, which is unremarkable on its own, but in any deck flooding the board with large creatures, Aragorn, Hornburg Hero included, that card-draw trigger fires constantly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aragorn, Hornburg Hero
Aragorn, Hornburg Hero generates a stream of Human tokens that grow through the combat step, and once they cross the power-4 threshold, Valeron Wardens converts each one into a card — turning a go-wide combat engine into a draw engine at the same time.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Valeron Wardens is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive constructed formats have no interest in a three-mana 2/4 whose trigger requires battlefield setup. Commander is the only home where it earns a slot — specifically in decks that consistently produce power-4-or-greater creatures as a byproduct of their main game plan, not as a deliberate build-around. In those shells it functions as low-cost, redundant card draw that doesn't ask you to change anything about how you're already playing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Valeron Wardens is bulk — you're paying almost nothing for what can be a meaningful draw engine in the right Commander shell. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a new commander pushes them into demand, so pick it up for the effect, not as a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Aragorn, Hornburg Hero
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.