Valor Singer
Creature — Tiefling Bard
Combat Inspiration — At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #23707
Valor Singer turns every attacking creature into a pseudo-anthem, pumping your whole board by +1/+0 each time one swings — on a three-mana body that also attacks itself. The cost is that the effect is combat-locked and the body is fragile, so it lives or dies by how many attackers you're throwing per turn.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Valor Singer is a Commander card — full stop. In 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, a three-mana do-nothing-until-combat creature with no immediate board impact doesn't clear the bar when aggressive decks have access to far more efficient payoffs. Pauper is the only non-Commander 60-card format where it's worth a second glance, specifically in token-based go-wide strategies that lack anthem density, though even there it's fringe. In Commander, Valor Singer earns its slot in any deck that routinely attacks with five or more creatures — it turns a board-state advantage into a lethal damage gap that opponents can't simply calculate away at declare-attackers.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Valor Singer is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any commons box without a second thought. Bulk rares occasionally spike when a new commander pushes their archetype into the spotlight, but Valor Singer is common-rare territory where demand rarely moves the needle.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.