Call the Coppercoats
Instant
Strive — This spell costs 
more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Choose any number of target opponents. Create X 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens, where X is the number of creatures those opponents control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2020
- Price
- $6.63
- EDHREC rank
- #1514
Call the Coppercoats drops a token army whose size scales with how many opponents you have — in a four-player pod, you're looking at a minimum of three 1/1 Humans per mana spent, and the spell is copiable, so commanders like Neyali, Suns' Vanguard can double the output. If your deck cares about Human counts, wide boards, or anthem effects like Mayael's Aria, this is one of the most mana-efficient token spells in white.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard copies every instant or sorcery you cast during combat, so Call the Coppercoats effectively doubles in a single swing step — you spend three mana and get two full waves of Humans, plus Neyali triggers a card draw for each token that attacks.
Silvar, Devourer of the Free // Trynn, Champion of Freedom
Trynn generates a Human token on end step whenever a Human you control attacks, so Call the Coppercoats flooding the board accelerates Trynn's output geometrically; Silvar then consumes those tokens to become an indestructible threat that's almost impossible to answer.
Commissar Severina Raine
Commissar Severina Raine rewards you for sacrificing creatures — draining opponents and drawing cards — so Call the Coppercoats is fuel: a wide token dump that converts directly into life loss and card advantage on your next sacrifice payoff.
Commander Mustard
Commander Mustard gives all your creatures haste the turn they arrive if they share a type with a creature you already control, which means the Humans from Call the Coppercoats can attack immediately — the spell becomes a surprise combat trick as well as a board refill.
Kyler, Sigardian Emissary
Kyler, Sigardian Emissary puts a +1/+1 counter on every Human you control whenever another Human enters — Call the Coppercoats drops potentially six or more Humans at once, stacking counters on your whole board in a single trigger wave.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Call the Coppercoats is a Commander card through and through — its scaling clause is nearly meaningless in 1v1 formats and reaches full power only in a multiplayer pod where three opponents push the baseline token count to three per mana spent. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but unplayed; white token strategies in those formats want cheaper, more resilient options, and a three-mana sorcery that performs best with more opponents is structurally misaligned with competitive 1v1 play. Commander and Oathbreaker are the right homes, with Oathbreaker's smaller life totals making a sudden wide board of Humans particularly punishing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Raise the Alarm and [[Secure the Wastes]] are the closest budget substitutes — both cheaper in mana and cash — but neither scales with opponent count, so you trade raw ceiling for consistency. Call the Coppercoats is genuinely hard to replace on rate in a four-player game; if you cut it, you're looking at something like Martial Coup or White Sun's Zenith for the X-spell token feel, accepting that those require significantly more mana to match the same token count.
Price Context
Current price
$6.63 mid tier
At $6.63, Call the Coppercoats sits in the mid tier — noticeable money but not a budget barrier for a staple slot. It holds that price because there's no functional reprint at the same rate, and the card sees consistent demand across Human and token strategies.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Mayael's Aria
- Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
- Silvar, Devourer of the Free // Trynn, Champion of Freedom
- Commissar Severina Raine
- Commander Mustard
- Kyler, Sigardian Emissary
- Devilish Valet
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.