Icatian Lieutenant
Creature — Human Soldier
: Target Soldier creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Masters Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #30729
Icatian Lieutenant pumps every other Soldier you control for a single white mana each activation, turning a wide board into a real threat without any setup beyond having creatures. The mana investment is real — this is a tap-sink, not a passive anthem — but in the right shell it closes games.
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 |
In Commander, Icatian Lieutenant belongs in Soldier tribal decks where the board is already wide and the activations compound across multiple creatures at instant speed. Legacy and Vintage are legal but have no interest in a two-mana 1/1 with an expensive pump ability when the format's threats operate several power levels above this. Pauper is where Icatian Lieutenant has historically had the most to say — white Soldier synergies exist at common, and a repeatable pump on an aggressive curve is worth considering. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: functional only if the deck is already built around Soldiers.
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Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.