Bant Sojourners

Creature — Human Soldier

When you cycle this card and when this creature dies, you may create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{G}{W}{U}
Color identity
GUW
Rarity
common
Set
Alara Reborn
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#28026
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Bant Sojourners card art
Bant Sojourners is a five-mana 3/4 that replaces itself when it cycles or dies, and its cycling trigger can tap down a blocker — useful on paper, but five mana for a vanilla-sized body with conditional upside is too slow for competitive Commander tables. The cycling cost of one generic makes the card-draw easy to access, but you're still investing resources for an effect that dedicated cyclers or interaction pieces do cheaper.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Bant Sojourners is a Pauper-legal card, and that's the only format where it earns genuine consideration — Bant colors are rare at common, and a self-replacing body with a enters-the-battlefield-adjacent cycling trigger fits cycling-synergy shells. In Commander, it's outclassed at every angle: five mana for a 3/4 with a tap effect is too inefficient when the format's baseline for five-drop value is much higher. Legacy and Vintage don't want it; the power gap is too wide. If you're sleeving up a cycling-matters Commander deck, Bant Sojourners is playable filler, but it's never a priority inclusion.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Bant Sojourners is deep bulk — the price reflects its narrow playability rather than any supply issue. It holds that floor reliably and won't spike, so there's no urgency in either direction.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.