Fencing Ace
Creature — Human Soldier
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #14048
Fencing Ace enters the battlefield as a 1/1 with double strike — the most damage-multiplying keyword in the game — for two mana, which is the exact rate that makes pump spells and +1/+1 counters absurdly efficient. Outside of dedicated keyword-soup strategies like Odric, Lunarch Marshal, it's a fragile body that folds to any removal before it attacks.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
Odric, Lunarch Marshal reads Fencing Ace's double strike and hands it to every creature you control at the start of combat — turning what would be a single aggressive two-drop into a board-wide damage doubler that closes games out of nowhere.
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, Fencing Ace is a role-player, not a headliner — it earns its slot in double-strike synergy builds and keyword-distribution decks but disappears from lists that don't have a specific plan for it. In Pauper it's a legitimate threat: two mana for double strike is a real rate in aggressive white builds, and a single pump spell turns it into a race-ender. Modern and Pioneer have efficient removal and larger threats everywhere, so Fencing Ace doesn't survive long enough to justify the slot over creatures with built-in resilience. Legacy and Vintage are simply the wrong venues — the power level gap is too wide.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Fencing Ace is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk rares can spike on new commander printings or combo discoveries, but a vanilla double-strike body at this price tier has no realistic floor to fall through and no obvious catalyst to climb.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.