Foot Ninjas
Creature — Human Ninja
Sneak 
(You may cast this spell for if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step. It enters tapped and attacking.)
When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #20539
Foot Ninjas floods the board with 1/1 Ninja tokens whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player — repeatable, evasion-fueled token generation stapled onto the Ninja tribe's core mechanic. The cost is real: it does nothing without attacking Ninjas already connecting, so in pods without a ninjutsu package it's a blank.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Splinter, Radical Rat
Splinter, Radical Rat turns every ninjutsu activation into a combat-damage threat, and Foot Ninjas converts those threats directly into a growing token army — the two cards share the same axis so completely that running Splinter without Foot Ninjas is leaving the engine half-assembled.
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, Foot Ninjas slots cleanly into any Ninja tribal build and scales hard in multiplayer — three opponents means three opportunities per swing to trigger token generation off a single unblocked Ninja. Outside Commander, the card is legal in every major format but has seen no competitive traction, which tracks: 60-card formats demand more consistent payoffs than a tribal synergy piece that requires combat damage to fire. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth watching, where cheap Ninjas with ninjutsu are plentiful and the card's floor is higher.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Foot Ninjas is pure bulk — no price floor to worry about, no reason to hesitate on picking up a playset. Bulk tribal synergy pieces at this price point rarely climb unless the tribe gets a breakout card or commander, so treat it as a cheap pickup for current decks rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Splinter, Radical Rat
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.