Cateran Enforcer
Creature — Horror Mercenary
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
, 
: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 4 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #26037
Cateran Enforcer is a five-mana 4/3 with fear that tutors any Mercenary from your library to the battlefield — repeatable recursion baked into a body. The cost is real: five mana and a tap at sorcery speed makes this slow, and the payoff only lands if you're running a critical mass of Mercenary targets worth fetching.
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 |
Commander is the only format where Cateran Enforcer is worth serious consideration, and only inside a dedicated Mercenary tribal shell — the tutoring chain it anchors needs enough redundant pieces to justify the five-mana entry point. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but irrelevant; nothing in those formats is slow enough to wait for a tap-to-tutor engine that competes against turn-one and two threats. Cateran Enforcer occupies a narrow niche: tribal synergy Commander decks where Mercenary recursion chains generate enough value to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Cateran Enforcer is deep bulk — zero financial barrier to entry for anyone building Mercenary tribal. Demand is too narrow to move the price, so it will stay in the bulk bin indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.