Border Patrol
Creature — Human Nomad
Vigilance
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Judgment
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #29755
Border Patrol drops a 3/3 vigilance body that also locks down every creature your opponents control with power 3 or greater — all for five mana at common. It's a niche defensive piece that earns its slot only in specific stax or pillow-fort shells.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Border Patrol is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it's a fringe consideration in all of them. In Commander it fits narrowest stax and pillow-fort strategies that want to tax aggressive creature decks, though five mana for a conditional tap-lock rarely competes with more reliable stax pieces. Pauper is where Border Patrol has the most theoretical home — the format's common-only restriction makes defensive bodies harder to find — but the five-mana cost is steep for a format defined by efficiency. Legacy and Vintage can ignore it entirely; the power level ceiling there makes a 3/3 with a conditional tap clause irrelevant.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Border Patrol is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not card value. Bulk commons rarely appreciate unless a format shift suddenly makes them competitive, and nothing on the horizon suggests that for Border Patrol.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.