Boros Recruit
Creature — Goblin Soldier
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First strike
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18596
Boros Recruit is a one-mana 1/1 with first strike — the stat line is barely functional, and the payoff is gated entirely behind multicolor spells. Outside of General Ferrous Rokiric decks, where every multicolor spell is already generating a 3/3 Golem and Boros Recruit counts toward that trigger, it has no home worth discussing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
General Ferrous Rokiric
General Ferrous Rokiric wants every multicolor spell to trigger Golem production, and Boros Recruit is a one-mana multicolor spell — meaning it's the cheapest possible way to fire that engine on turn one and still leave mana open. The first strike is largely incidental; it's the casting cost that earns its slot.
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 |
Boros Recruit is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive relevance is essentially zero outside Commander. In Pauper it's a vanilla-adjacent one-drop with first strike in colors that have strictly better one-drops at the same price. In Legacy and Vintage, a 1/1 for one with no immediate board impact is nowhere near the conversation. Commander is the only format where Boros Recruit finds a reason to exist, and that reason is narrow: it's a cheap multicolor spell in a General Ferrous Rokiric shell, not a card with broad applicability across the format.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Boros Recruit is deep bulk — a card you pick out of a common box or grab as a throw-in, not one you seek out. Bulk commons in niche Commander roles don't appreciate; this stays at floor price unless General Ferrous Rokiric decks spike dramatically in popularity, which isn't a bet worth making.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.