Verdant Outrider
Creature — Human Knight
: This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26699
Verdant Outrider puts a 3/3 trampling Beast onto the battlefield the turn it enters — no attack required, no hoops to jump through. The cost is a three-mana 2/2 body that does nothing else, which is a steep price for that token in formats with better options.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Verdant Outrider is a role-player in token and +1/+1 counter shells that want bodies on the table immediately, but it faces stiff competition from cards that generate multiple tokens or scale with the board. Competitive constructed formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — have no interest in a 2/2 for three that trades a token for tempo; green can do far more at that mana cost. Pauper is the one format where its efficiency floor is at least respectable, since common-legal token generators are narrower, though Verdant Outrider still sits at the margins of playability there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Verdant Outrider is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. There is no price floor to fall through here, and demand is too thin to expect any upward movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.