Leonin Den-Guard
Creature — Cat Soldier
As long as this creature is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #24504
Leonin Den-Guard is a 2/3 vigilance creature whose stat line only becomes relevant when it's equipped — without a piece of Equipment attached, it's a vanilla body that most formats ignore. The card exists almost entirely as an Equipment synergy payoff, and even in that role, cheaper and more impactful options exist at every rarity.
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 |
Leonin Den-Guard sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — the formats are too fast and the card too underpowered to matter. Pauper is the one format where Equipment synergies occasionally surface, but even there Leonin Den-Guard loses out to commons with better base stats or built-in abilities. In Commander, it occasionally shows up in Voltron-adjacent Equipment builds, but a 2/3 that conditionally gains vigilance is nowhere near the threshold for a 100-card singleton format where every slot is contested.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Leonin Den-Guard is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box, not a trade binder. That price reflects genuine demand, which is to say almost none, and it's unlikely to move without a significant Equipment-matters reprint environment that makes this a suddenly necessary role-player.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.