Assemble the Legion
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a muster counter on this enchantment. Then create a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste for each muster counter on this enchantment.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #2061
Assemble the Legion snowballs fast — each upkeep adds a mite counter, and the token count doubles every two turns, turning a five-mana enchantment into an unstoppable board presence if left alone. The cost is exactly that conditional: it does nothing the turn it enters, so slower or control-heavy decks can answer it before the army materializes, but commanders like Esix, Fractal Bloom or Commander Mustard that copy or exploit each token as it arrives close that window quickly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Commander Mustard
Commander Mustard appears in 78% of lists running Assemble the Legion for a reason — the enchantment's self-scaling token stream feeds his attack-triggers every single combat, turning each new 1/1 Soldier into another payoff activation without spending extra cards.
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
Caesar, Legion's Emperor rewards you for sending creatures to their death, and Assemble the Legion provides an endless, zero-cost stream of expendable Soldiers to sacrifice or throw into combat, triggering Caesar on every front.
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard doubles tokens attacking and grants them double strike, so the exponentially growing Soldier army from Assemble the Legion translates directly into a geometric damage ceiling rather than just board presence.
Iroas, God of Victory
Iroas, God of Victory makes your attacking creatures nearly impossible to block profitably, and Assemble the Legion's constant stream of free attackers means Iroas's static ability is active and relevant on every combat step.
General Ferrous Rokiric
General Ferrous Rokiric generates Golem tokens from multicolor spells, and Assemble the Legion supplements that plan with a secondary source of wide board presence that requires no spell investment after the initial five-mana cast.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Assemble the Legion is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it lives almost exclusively in Commander. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, five mana for a do-nothing enchantment is far too slow — the game is often over before the third counter lands. Pioneer is the only competitive 60-card format where it has seen fringe play in token-focused midrange shells, though even there it's a casual or budget choice. Commander is where Assemble the Legion earns every slot: the slower pace, the multiplayer board development, and the prevalence of token synergies all let the snowball actually roll, and in Boros token builds it frequently closes games on its own if unanswered.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Esix, Fractal BloomTimestream NavigatorAssemble the Legion
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Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Assemble the Legion is deep bulk — one of the cheapest enchantments that can legitimately take over a Commander game on its own. That price reflects low competitive demand across 60-card formats rather than any weakness in the card itself, and it's unlikely to move significantly unless a Standard-legal token commander drives renewed interest.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.