Fresh Volunteers
Creature — Human Rebel
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #28155
Fresh Volunteers is a 2/2 lifelink for one white mana — the rate is real, and lifelink on a one-drop matters in any deck that wants to stabilize early or feed life-payment engines. It's a role-player, not a headliner, but the stat-line earns its slot in the right shell.
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 |
Fresh Volunteers is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In Commander it fits life-matters and token-adjacent white decks — a one-drop with lifelink pulls above its weight when commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim care about every point of life gain. In Pauper it competes in white weenie and lifegain aggro, where the one-mana 2/2 lifelink body is genuinely above the format's baseline for commons. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card is fine, but those formats don't want a vanilla-adjacent one-drop without additional text.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Fresh Volunteers is deep bulk — grab a copy whenever you're padding a cart order, but don't expect the price to move. Commons with narrow application don't spike unless a new commander breaks the lifegain archetype wide open.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.