Yuyan Archers
Creature — Human Archer
Reach
When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #17109
Yuyan Archers is a five-mana 1/3 that can tap to prevent all combat damage a target creature would deal — powerful on paper, but the activation requires tapping a creature you control each time, which makes it expensive to operate every turn. The ceiling is real against commander-damage threats, but the floor is a vanilla 1/3 that does nothing the turn it enters.
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 |
Yuyan Archers sees essentially zero competitive play across constructed formats — five mana for a 1/3 with a tap-based damage prevention ability is too slow and too fragile for Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where threats are answered with removal or counters rather than blockers. In Commander, the card has a narrow niche: pillow-fort decks and stax shells that want to repeatedly neutralize a single dangerous attacker, particularly commanders that win through combat damage like Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or Rafiq of the Many. Even there, Yuyan Archers competes against cheaper, more permanent protection effects and rarely makes the cut outside of highly thematic builds.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Yuyan Archers is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve and there's no pressure to pick it up speculatively. Bulk mythics hold value; bulk commons and uncommons like this one don't appreciate, so grab it only if you have an immediate home for it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.