Fault Riders
Creature — Human Soldier
Sacrifice a land: This creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #30934
Fault Riders swings as a 3/3 for four mana — fine stats, unremarkable rate. The cost is real: sacrificing a land to activate its ability means you're trading board position for temporary pump, and that math rarely works out in your favor.
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 |
Fault Riders is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, a 3/3 for four with an activated ability that costs a land sacrifice is outclassed by nearly every creature at this slot. Pauper is the only format where the card is even theoretically relevant, but aggressive red commons at this mana cost have far better options. Fault Riders is legal everywhere it could matter and played nowhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Fault Riders is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a dime box at a vendor table. There is no meaningful demand floor here, so the price reflects exactly what the card is worth competitively.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.