Is Battalion Foot Soldier good in Commander?

Battalion Foot Soldier

Creature — Human Soldier

When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards named Battalion Foot Soldier, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

CMC: 3
Mana cost
Color identity: W
Rarity: common
Set: Core Set 2020
Price: $0.10
EDHREC rank: #30572

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Battalion Foot Soldier tutors two copies of itself onto the battlefield when it enters, turning a single white mana into three bodies for one card. The rate is real, and any deck that wants redundant white creatures or sacrifice fodder at scale — especially anything running Phyrexian Altar — should be running this.

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	legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Battalion Foot Soldier does its best work — three bodies from one card slot is exactly what token-adjacent and aristocrats strategies want, and the white weenie redundancy means losing one copy rarely matters. In Pauper, it's a legitimate engine piece given the format's creature-based synergies and the raw card-advantage gap between one card and three permanents. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are all legal but won't touch it; those formats move too fast for a 1/1 tribal package. Pioneer is the same story.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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