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 (
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GUW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #28026
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
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
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.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
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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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.