Law-Rune Enforcer
Creature — Human Soldier
, 
: Tap target creature with mana value 2 or greater.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #19179
Law-Rune Enforcer taps any creature for one white mana — repeatable, cheap, and stapled to a 1/2 body that shows up on turn one. At one mana, the cost to include it is trivially low; the cost to ignore it is a threat that untaps every combat.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Law-Rune Enforcer earns its slot in any white strategy that wants to stall a commander or neutralize a single threatening creature every turn cycle without spending a card. Pauper is where it genuinely competes — one-mana tap effects on a creature are efficient enough that white aggro and taxing shells consider it. In Modern and Pioneer the effect is too slow and too small to matter; those formats kill you before a 1/2 tapdown engine gets going. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all. Law-Rune Enforcer is a Commander and Pauper card, full stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Law-Rune Enforcer is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a common box, not tracking it on a spreadsheet. Bulk commons don't appreciate, but this one doesn't need to; it earns its slot on utility alone.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.