White Knight
Creature — Human Knight
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from black (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Legions
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #17768
White Knight is a 2/2 first striker with protection from black for two mana — a clean, efficient threat that blanks a wide swath of removal on its own. Dion, Bahamut's Dominant pushes it further, but even without help, it pulls its weight in any white creature build.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant cares about Knights, and White Knight slots in as one of the cheapest, most resilient bodies in that tribe — protection from black means it survives Dion's own damage-based removal and stays on board long enough to trigger knight-matters payoffs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, White Knight is a role-player in dedicated Knight tribal builds or aggressive white weenie shells, but 100-card singleton dilutes its impact and the format's slower pace means a 2/2 rarely closes games alone. Legacy and Vintage are where protection from black has historically mattered most, but White Knight has been outclassed there for years — Stoneforge Mystic and True-Name Nemesis do more for far less opportunity cost. Modern has access to strictly better options at the same slot, so White Knight doesn't see meaningful play there either. It's a solid draft and casual cube inclusion where its combination of evasion and resilience still reads as a genuine two-drop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, White Knight is deep bulk — a card you'll find in any collection binder without spending real money. Decades of reprints have kept the price flat and there's no pressure pushing it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.