Haradrim Spearmaster
Creature — Human Warrior
Reach
At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #21525
Haradrim Spearmaster enters as a 2/2 with deathtouch and first strike — a combination that wins every combat it enters — on a two-mana body. The cost is that it does nothing else: no enter-the-battlefield trigger, no evasion, no upside beyond being an efficient blocker or attacker in the early turns.
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, Haradrim Spearmaster is a role-player in deathtouch-synergy decks — Fynn, the Fangbearer turns every connect into a poison counter, and Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons wants cheap deathtouch creatures to threaten attacks. Outside of those shells, a vanilla 2/2 doesn't survive the transition to multiplayer. In Pauper, the first strike plus deathtouch combination is legitimately powerful at common — it blanks most attackers and forces two-for-ones — but the format has enough cheap removal that a 2/2 with no enters trigger is rarely a staple. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Haradrim Spearmaster simply doesn't clear the power bar those formats demand.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Haradrim Spearmaster is deep bulk — pick it up in a common lot or as a throw-in without a second thought. Don't expect the price to move; a vanilla-statted two-drop with no constructed pedigree has nowhere to go.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.