Ardent Soldier
Creature — Human Soldier
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Vigilance
If this creature was kicked, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #30341
Ardent Soldier is a 1/2 for one mana with no abilities — the floor for a playable creature, and this doesn't clear it. There is no shell in Commander or any other format where a vanilla 1/2 earns a slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ardent Soldier is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not a reason to run it. In Commander, a 1/2 vanilla body is irrelevant at any point in the game — it trades down with every token on the board and contributes nothing to a strategy. Pauper is the one format where commons compete on raw efficiency, and even there a 1/2 for one with no text loses to nearly every other one-drop. There is no format context that rehabilitates this card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Ardent Soldier is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and nothing else. The price accurately reflects demand, which is essentially zero, and it will not rise.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.