Bant Sureblade
Creature — Human Soldier
As long as you control another multicolored permanent, this creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GUW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #23436
Bant Sureblade is a 1/2 for two mana that becomes a 2/3 with first strike whenever you control another multicolored permanent — a condition Bant decks meet almost automatically. The ceiling is fine for the cost, but a vanilla 1/2 the turns you miss the trigger makes it fragile enough to cut in most builds.
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 Sureblade sees essentially no competitive play anywhere it's legal. In Pauper it's outclassed by commons with unconditional stats or relevant abilities. In Legacy and Vintage the bar for a two-mana creature is so high that a conditional 2/3 first striker doesn't register. Commander is where it has the most theoretical home — multicolored permanents are everywhere — but even there, Bant Sureblade competes against three-color goodstuff cards that do far more for the same slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Bant Sureblade is deep bulk — a card you find in a common box, not a purchase you make deliberately. That price reflects demand accurately and isn't going anywhere.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.