Ceremonial Guard
Creature — Human Soldier
When this creature attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #30931
Ceremonial Guard is a vanilla 2/4 for four mana — no abilities, no enters-the-battlefield trigger, nothing. It doesn't make the cut in any format where creatures are expected to do more than occupy space.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ceremonial Guard is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a 2/4 with no text competes against a format full of creatures that draw cards, generate mana, or win games on the spot — it loses that competition every time. Pauper is the one format where defensive bodies at common occasionally find a niche, but even there a 2/4 for four mana trails far behind staples with actual upside. Ceremonial Guard has no realistic home in competitive or casual 60-card formats either.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Ceremonial Guard sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that ends up in a box, not a deck. That price is unlikely to move without a rules change that suddenly makes vanilla creatures matter.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.