Hardy Outlander
Legendary Enchantment — Background
Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, another target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14203
Hardy Outlander is a two-mana 2/2 with ward 2 and trample — the ward makes it surprisingly sticky for its cost, and trample means the damage actually gets through on a board full of chump blockers. It's a serviceable aggressive creature, not a powerhouse, but the protection-plus-evasion combination punches above its mana cost 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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hardy Outlander is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but realistically it's a Commander card — Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent two-drop when the competition starts at Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer and Delver of Secrets. In Commander, ward 2 matters more than in any other format because it taxes spot removal in a multiplayer game where opponents are already stretched thin on mana and targets. The trample isn't irrelevant either — go-wide creature strategies often need a reliable way to punch through tokens, and Hardy Outlander provides that at a budget price point.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Hardy Outlander at the moment, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for current market rates. As a common-rarity aggressive creature, it's almost certainly a bulk pickup — worth grabbing a copy if it fits your deck without any real financial deliberation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.