Is Catapult Squad good in Commander?

Catapult Squad

Creature — Human Soldier

Tap two untapped Soldiers you control: This creature deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

CMC: 2
Mana cost
Color identity: W
Rarity: uncommon
Set: Onslaught
Price: $0.19
EDHREC rank: #22917

Catapult Squad turns a board of tapped soldiers into a repeatable direct-damage outlet — tap two soldiers, deal 2 to any target, no mana required. The catch is the activation cost: you need bodies already committed to combat or a dedicated tap engine to fire it outside the attack step, which limits it outside soldier-tribal shells like Darien, King of Kjeldor.

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

Catapult Squad is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only earns a slot in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, a two-mana 1/1 with a tap-two-creatures activation doesn't compete with the efficiency of those formats — there's no soldier synergy infrastructure to make it relevant. Commander is where Catapult Squad lives: soldier-tribal decks can consistently fuel its activations, and its damage output scales with token production in a format where games go long enough for that to matter.

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