Bristlepack Sentry
Creature — Plant Wolf
Defender
As long as you control a creature with power 4 or greater, this creature can attack as though it didn't have defender.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #19520
Bristlepack Sentry enters as a 4/3 for three mana when you control another Warrior, a rate that demands an answer — ignore it and it trades up with almost anything. Outside Warrior tribal, it's a vanilla 1/2 for three, which is unplayable at any table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bristlepack Sentry is a Warrior-tribal-or-bust card, which narrows its homes sharply across every format. In Commander, it earns a slot in dedicated Warrior decks — think Najeela, the Blade-Blossom or Kargan Warleader at the helm — where the 4/3 body comes online reliably and pressures the table early. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, Warrior tribal is fringe at best, and a conditional 4/3 for three competes against unconditional threats that simply win the tribal comparison. Pauper is the one format where budget-constrained Warrior synergies could make Bristlepack Sentry worth a look, but even there the density of better commons makes it a long shot.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Bristlepack Sentry is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a tribal piece that happens to be cheap enough to ignore the cost entirely. It won't appreciate; pick up copies only when building around Warriors, and don't expect the price to move in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.