Freestrider Commando
Creature — Centaur Mercenary
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it if it wasn't cast or no mana was spent to cast it.
Plot 
(You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #20046
Freestrider Commando lands as a 3/3 that immediately destroys a target artifact or enchantment — you get the removal on entry, not conditional on anything else surviving. Six mana is the real cost, and that rate only pays off in slower formats where the body matters as much as the effect.
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, Freestrider Commando fits cleanly into any green or Simic shell that needs incidental artifact and enchantment removal on a creature — it blocks, attacks, and already earned its slot the turn it entered. Competitive tables will find six mana too slow when Reclamation Sage and Haywire Mite do the same job cheaper, but at casual tables the 3/3 body is a meaningful bonus. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, Freestrider Commando struggles to justify six mana when efficient two- and three-mana answers dominate sideboards. Pauper is where the math gets interesting — commons at this effect type are scarcer, and the body-plus-removal package can pull weight in a slower ground game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Freestrider Commando is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as throw-ins or out of a commons box. There is no meaningful price floor to hold here; it stays in this tier unless something external pushes demand, and nothing about the card's rate suggests that happens.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.