Consul's Lieutenant
Creature — Human Soldier
First strike
Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
Whenever this creature attacks, if it's renowned, other attacking creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #20967
Consul's Lieutenant puts a first-strike, renown-enabled body on the board for two mana and starts pumping your entire attacking team once it connects. The payoff is real, but it demands a deck built around combat and consistent attacking — without that infrastructure, the renown trigger never fires and you have a vanilla 2/1.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Consul's Lieutenant is a role-player in aggressive white human or soldier strategies — it requires renown to matter, which means you need a deck that attacks early and often rather than one that controls or goes wide at sorcery speed. In Pioneer and Modern, aggressive white weenie shells are where it theoretically fits, but the competition at two mana is steep and the renown condition makes it slower and more conditional than comparable options. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a two-mana creature that needs to connect before it does anything. Oathbreaker mirrors the same story as Commander: valid in a dedicated aggro shell, nowhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Consul's Lieutenant is deep bulk — cheap enough to throw into any aggro build without a second thought. It won't appreciate; this is a card you pick up in a bulk bin and don't think about again.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.