Expendable Lackey
Creature — Human Citizen
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This token can't be blocked." Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20970
Expendable Lackey enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself by tutoring any Mercenary directly onto the battlefield — the card disadvantage of playing a 1/1 for two mana simply doesn't exist. If Mercenaries are your tribe, this is an automatic inclusion.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Expendable Lackey is a tribal engine piece — it finds whatever Mercenary you need at that moment, whether that's a combo piece, a lord, or a utility creature, and puts it straight into play. Pauper is the competitive format where it has the most relevance, since the Mercenary chain mechanic is legal and functional at common rarity. Modern and Legacy have access to it, but Mercenaries have no meaningful presence in either format's metagame, so Expendable Lackey sits on the shelf there. Pioneer follows the same logic — legal, irrelevant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Expendable Lackey is pure bulk — grab a playset without thinking about it. The price reflects low demand outside niche tribal builds, and there's no pressure on it to move up unless Mercenaries get a meaningful competitive push.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.