Call the Cavalry
Sorcery
Create two 2/2 white Knight creature tokens with vigilance.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Game Night
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #18850
Call the Cavalry puts two 2/2 Knight tokens with vigilance onto the battlefield for five mana — that's four power and four toughness spread across two bodies, and vigilance means they pressure and block on the same turn. Five mana for two vanilla 2/2s is below rate in most contexts, but Dion, Bahamut's Dominant and other token-matters commanders convert that pair of bodies into something worth the slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant rewards you for going wide with creature tokens, and Call the Cavalry delivers two Knights at instant-adjacent sorcery speed — both bodies immediately feed Dion's scaling payoffs and the vigilance means they contribute offensively without leaving you exposed.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Call the Cavalry is strictly a token-matters card — two bodies for five mana is unplayable as a generic threat, but commanders that scale with creature count or Knight tribal synergies can justify the slot on a budget. Pauper is where the card has its best shot at real play, since the common card pool makes two-for-one token producers more competitively priced and go-wide strategies are legitimate. In Modern and Pioneer, five mana sorceries that produce 2/2s simply don't clear the bar — faster, cheaper, or more impactful token producers exist at every point on the curve. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Call the Cavalry is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box rather than buy. Bulk token producers don't typically appreciate unless a new Commander precon creates sudden demand, so treat this as a throw-in, not a pickup.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.