Brambleguard Veteran
Creature — Raccoon Warrior
Whenever you expend 4, Raccoons you control get +1/+1 and gain vigilance until end of turn. (You expend 4 as you spend your fourth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #13525
Brambleguard Veteran enters with a +1/+1 counter and gives all creatures with counters trample — that's a board-wide keyword stapled to a body that immediately qualifies for it. Muerra, Trash Tactician decks run it at nearly 88% inclusion for good reason: the effect is permanent, costs three mana, and turns a counters synergy into a damage engine without any additional setup.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Muerra, Trash Tactician
Muerra, Trash Tactician distributes +1/+1 counters whenever you cycle or discard, so Brambleguard Veteran converts that constant stream of counters into trample across the whole board — every pumped creature now punches through blockers instead of trading into them.
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 Veteran is a Commander card through and through — the trample grant scales with the number of creatures you control, and go-wide counters strategies in 100-card singleton are exactly where that scales hardest. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a 2/3 for three that gives trample only to counters creatures is too narrow and too slow compared to dedicated Hardened Scales builds that want every slot to do double duty. Standard has it legal but won't reward it: aggressive green decks there want more immediate pressure for three mana. The card is not legal in Pauper, which is the one format where its raw stats might have squeezed in. Stick to Commander, specifically any deck that puts +1/+1 counters on multiple creatures — that's where the effect stops being incremental and starts being backbreaking.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Brambleguard Veteran sits firmly in bulk territory — it's the kind of card you pick up in a collection lot without noticing. That price is unlikely to move unless a future set pushes a high-profile counters commander into the limelight, so grab a copy now for essentially nothing and don't give the cost a second thought.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.