Kolaghan Forerunners
Creature — Human Berserker
Trample
Kolaghan Forerunners's power is equal to the number of creatures you control.
Dash 
(You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragons of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #21545
Kolaghan Forerunners swings in for a power equal to the number of creatures you control — in a go-wide deck, that's a lethal attacker by the midgame. Dash keeps it safe from sorcery-speed removal, but the five-mana dash cost is steep for what is ultimately just a big beater with no evasion.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kolaghan Forerunners lives almost exclusively in Commander, where token and creature-flood strategies can reliably push its power into the double digits. In 1v1 formats like Modern or Pioneer, a five-mana creature that dies to any blocker and provides no immediate board impact is too slow and too easy to answer — Goblin or Dragon tribal decks that might otherwise want it have faster, more resilient options. Legacy and Vintage don't touch it. Commander is the one context where the payoff is real, specifically in Rakdos or Mardu go-wide builds that can dash it in for a one-shot threat without committing it to the board.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Kolaghan Forerunners is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box without thinking twice. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a go-wide Commander strategy breaks into the mainstream spotlight.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.