Coordinated Maneuver
Instant
Choose one —
• Coordinated Maneuver deals damage equal to the number of creatures you control to target creature or planeswalker.
• Destroy target enchantment.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #11459
Coordinated Maneuver gives your entire team first strike and vigilance until end of turn — swing wide, take no damage back, and untap ready to block. The two-mana cost is the real story: this is a combat trick with army-wide reach, and Zurgo, Thunder's Decree turns that combination into a repeatable threat engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zurgo, Thunder's Decree
Zurgo, Thunder's Decree generates tokens whenever you attack, and Coordinated Maneuver means every one of those tokens trades up in combat while Zurgo's board stays untapped for defense — the vigilance clause is doing as much work as the first strike.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Coordinated Maneuver earns its slot in go-wide aggro decks that want to alpha strike without leaving themselves exposed — vigilance on a full board is a real political tool, not just a combat bonus. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, a two-mana sorcery that doesn't interact with the stack is simply too slow and too reliant on board state to see play. Pauper and Legacy are similarly uninterested; combat tricks at sorcery speed lose to any instant-speed answer. This is a Commander card through and through, and even there it's narrowly best in token or soldier-tribal shells where the board is wide enough to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Coordinated Maneuver is firmly bulk — easy to pick up and easy to justify at that price point. Bulk combat tricks rarely climb in value, so treat it as a role-player you grab from the dollar box and move on.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.