Boros Guildmage
Creature — Human Wizard
: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #16827
Boros Guildmage puts two activated abilities on the board — first strike and haste grants — for a single two-mana body, and the cost is that both abilities require mana sinks every turn to matter. In General Ferrous Rokiric decks, haste on demand is the closer that turns a fresh Golem token into an immediate threat; everywhere else, the Guildmage is fighting for a slot against cards that don't need setup.
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General Ferrous Rokiric
General Ferrous Rokiric rewards multicolor spells with 4/4 Golem tokens, and Boros Guildmage's haste ability means those tokens attack the turn they enter — turning what would be a one-turn delay into immediate pressure without needing a separate haste enabler.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Boros Guildmage occupies a narrow role: haste enabler in token or go-wide red-white builds where paying two mana repeatedly to grant haste scales across a wide board. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — Boros Guildmage is too slow and too mana-intensive to compete in those formats against dedicated threats. The first strike mode is the weaker of the two abilities in multiplayer, where combat math rarely hinges on a single creature's combat damage ordering. If you're not in a deck that generates multiple tokens per turn and wants to swing with all of them immediately, Boros Guildmage is outclassed by static haste-granters like Swiftfoot Boots.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Boros Guildmage is bulk — easy to acquire, no financial barrier to testing. Bulk rare prices like this are stable at the floor; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.