Join the Ranks
Instant
Create two 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature tokens.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Worldwake
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #20862
Join the Ranks puts two 1/1 white Soldier tokens onto the battlefield at instant speed for four mana — relevant timing, underwhelming rate. Four mana for two 1/1s is a bad deal in almost every context unless you're in a deck that taxes each token's arrival individually.
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, Join the Ranks is a role-player at best — it belongs only in decks where each entering token generates meaningful value, such as Soldier tribal or token-doubler shells. In Pauper it's legal and marginally more competitive, where commons-only aggressive token strategies could use the instant-speed flexibility, though four mana is still steep for that format's curve. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have access to far more efficient token production, so Join the Ranks sees essentially no play there. It's a casual Commander card first and last.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Join the Ranks is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking about the price. It won't appreciate; it's a commons-level effect on a low-demand card, so treat it as a throwaway inclusion rather than a collection piece.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.