Brambleguard Captain
Creature — Mouse Soldier
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #11237
Brambleguard Captain lands as a lord that hands out vigilance and trample to your whole team — two keywords that together mean your attacking creatures threaten lethal while still holding back on defense. Mabel, Heir to Cragflame runs it in over 86% of builds because that combination is exactly what a go-wide Equipment strategy needs to close games.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
Brambleguard Captain is near-mandatory in Mabel, Heir to Cragflame decks — vigilance lets Mabel's equipped creatures swing and still block, while trample punches damage through the chump-blockers that would otherwise stall a token-wide board.
Arthur, Marigold Knight
Arthur, Marigold Knight generates a wide board of creature tokens, and Brambleguard Captain turns that flood of bodies into a trample-and-vigilance army that can attack without leaving Arthur exposed.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Brambleguard Captain is a Commander card through and through — its lord effect scales with creature count, and multiplayer games give you the board width to make vigilance and trample matter on multiple attackers per turn. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, three mana for a 2/2 with a static team buff is too slow and too dependent on a battlefield that aggressive decks can't reliably maintain. Standard and Legacy are technically legal but offer no compelling reason to run Brambleguard Captain over more efficient threats. Stick to Commander and Oathbreaker, where the card does exactly what it advertises.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Brambleguard Captain is bulk — you're not paying a premium for what is genuinely one of the stronger role-players in Mabel, Heir to Cragflame builds. Bulk rares with high inclusion rates in popular commanders tend to stay cheap until a reprint isn't needed, so grab copies now without any concern about overpaying.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
- Arthur, Marigold Knight
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.