Leonin Lightbringer
Creature — Cat Rebel
Ward 
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
As long as this creature is equipped, it gets +1/+1.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #21353
Leonin Lightbringer puts a +1/+1 counter on any creature you control whenever it or another Cat enters — passive, stackable, and it costs nothing to activate. Two mana for a 2/2 that grows your board on every Cat arrival is a clean rate in any dedicated Cat tribal build.
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 |
Leonin Lightbringer is strictly a tribal-payoff card, which means Commander is its natural home — 100-card singleton formats reward narrow synergy pieces that would never survive a 60-card competitive build. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; Cat tribal has no meaningful presence in that format's top tables. Modern and Pioneer are similar stories: the card is legal but sees zero competitive play because those formats demand unconditional power, not conditional tribal glue. Legacy and Vintage don't want it for the same reason at an even higher power bar. Commander is the one format where a two-mana 2/2 that silently pumps every Cat you play earns its slot.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Leonin Lightbringer is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't move unless a format spike hits Cat tribal specifically, and nothing on the competitive horizon suggests that's coming.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.