Fresh-Faced Recruit
Creature — Human Soldier
During your turn, this creature has first strike.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #23762
Fresh-Faced Recruit is a 2/1 with haste and vigilance for two mana — a combination of keywords that usually costs more than this. It's a clean, efficient aggressive body, and the ceiling is exactly what's printed on the card.
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, Fresh-Faced Recruit is a role-player in white-red go-wide or token-attack strategies where haste matters on the turn you flood the board — it's not embarrassing, but it's not a priority include either. Pauper is the format where it has the most genuine claim to a slot, since the keyword combination on a two-drop is above the common baseline and aggro decks there care deeply about tempo. In Modern and Pioneer it simply can't compete with the power level of two-drops in aggressive shells. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely. Fresh-Faced Recruit is a Pauper card that moonlights in Commander budgets.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Fresh-Faced Recruit is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not buying it. That price is stable because demand is low and supply is effectively infinite.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.