Alert Shu Infantry
Creature — Human Soldier
Vigilance
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $12.32
- EDHREC rank
- #30262
Alert Shu Infantry is a 2/1 Soldier for two mana with no special abilities — the exact kind of card that gets cut from every Commander deck to make room for something that actually affects the board. There is no shell where this outcompetes a two-drop with even one relevant keyword or enters-the-battlefield effect.
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 |
Alert Shu Infantry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not the same as playability. In Legacy and Vintage, a vanilla 2/1 for two mana has been unplayable since the format's earliest days — the bar for creatures is just too high. Commander is the most charitable home in theory, since Soldier tribal exists, but even there the slot demands something that generates value or enables a synergy. Oathbreaker offers no additional context that makes a statline this thin worth a card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Any two-drop Soldier with a keyword — Precinct Captain, Pikemaster, or even Haazda Marshal — does what Alert Shu Infantry does and then some for the same cost or less. If raw body count in Soldier tribal is the goal, White's suite of one- and two-mana token generators fills that role without trading a card for a single underwhelming creature.
Price Context
Current price
$12.32 mid tier
At $12.32, Alert Shu Infantry sits in the mid-price tier almost entirely on collector demand from its Portal Three Kingdoms printing rather than any gameplay merit. The price reflects scarcity of the set, not the card's power level, and it holds no competitive value outside of a curated collection.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.