Vela the Night-Clad
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Other creatures you control have intimidate.
Whenever Vela or another creature you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Planechase Anthology
- Price
- $0.52
- EDHREC rank
- #10085
Vela the Night-Clad hits the table and immediately threatens every opponent — she grants your whole board intimidate and drains one life from each opponent every time any creature you control leaves the battlefield. The cost is six mana for a 4/4 that does nothing until you have creatures entering and leaving, which means she's dead weight in fair boards but a kill condition in blink, token, or sac loops — Mirrorform-style flicker chains and Gisa and Geralf reanimation engines are exactly where she belongs.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gisa and Geralf
Gisa and Geralf runs a high density of Zombies entering and leaving the graveyard loop, and Vela the Night-Clad turns every reanimation trigger into a life drain that compounds fast enough to close games without combat.
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist creates token copies of Wizards that expire at end of turn — Vela the Night-Clad is herself a Wizard, so Inalla's trigger generates a copy that drains on death, stacking lethal damage across multiple opponents with minimal setup.
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 the only format where Vela the Night-Clad is worth building around — 40 life and three opponents make her drain trigger meaningful, and the format's creature-heavy gameplay guarantees the board presence she needs to matter. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but six mana for a creature with no immediate impact is unplayable in formats that end before she can generate value. Oathbreaker allows her but the smaller life totals and faster clock don't particularly suit a slow engine piece.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Sway of the StarsVela the Night-Clad
Each opponent loses the game; Near-infinite lifeloss for all players; Shuffle all hands, graveyards and permanents on the battlefield into their owner's library
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WorldfireVela the Night-Clad
Each opponent loses the game; Exile all cards in hands and graveyards; Exile all permanents; Near-infinite lifeloss for all players; Mass Land Denial
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Current price
$0.52 bulk tier
At $0.52, Vela the Night-Clad is bulk — easy to pick up without any budget consideration. Bulk rares with genuine combo utility tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no premium to pay.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.