Jedit's Dragoons
Creature — Cat Soldier
Vigilance
When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #28391
Jedit's Dragoons enters as a 4/4 lifelink for six mana — playable stats with a relevant keyword, but six mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature is a hard sell in any competitive context. Better lifelink payoffs exist at lower costs, and Jedit's Dragoons rarely makes the cut outside dedicated lifegain synergy builds.
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 |
Jedit's Dragoons is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Commander it fits only the most budget-focused lifegain decks, where commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Karlov of the Ghost Council want lifelink bodies — and even there, cheaper or more impactful options crowd it out. Pauper is the one format where its bulk-rare ceiling doesn't matter, but the format's efficient threats make a six-mana 4/4 with no enters-the-battlefield effect a poor investment of a turn. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage don't give Jedit's Dragoons a second look.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Jedit's Dragoons is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box, not a trade binder. There's no trajectory that changes this; it's a fair price for a card that rarely earns a deck slot.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.