Guardians' Pledge
Instant
White creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2012
- Price
- $1.17
- EDHREC rank
- #24672
Guardians' Pledge pumps all your white creatures +2/+2 until end of turn — at instant speed, that's a lethal combat trick or a surprise block that trades up across the board. Three mana for a token-wide alpha strike is the entire reason to run it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Guardians' Pledge is a token deck finisher — it's irrelevant in creature-light builds and strong in white go-wide strategies that need one more pump effect to close out a table. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive daylight, slotting into White Weenie and token strategies as a cheap combat trick that can swing board math in a single turn. In Legacy and Vintage it's too narrow for formats where board wipes and interaction are abundant, but it's legal and theoretically usable in a dedicated white aggro shell. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: token commanders make it a finisher; everything else ignores it.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.17 cheap tier
At $1.17, Guardians' Pledge sits at the low end of combat trick pricing, which is appropriate for a card with niche but real applications. It's not a card that appreciates — supply is deep and demand stays low outside budget Pauper and Commander token lists.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.