Longbow Archer
Creature — Human Soldier Archer
First strike; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Friday Night Magic 2000
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23654
Longbow Archer is a two-mana 2/2 with first strike and the ability to block creatures with flying — a genuinely unusual stat package that covers both ground and air without requiring any setup. It's never going to dominate a table, but for white weenie strategies that need cheap bodies pulling double duty, it overdelivers for its cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Longbow Archer is a role-player in white human tribal — not a staple, but a reasonable budget inclusion when you need early defense that reaches into the air. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but irrelevant; a two-mana 2/2 with no immediate card-advantage effect has never been competitive in those formats, and nothing about the current metagame changes that. Modern, Pioneer, and Pauper are all off the table by legality. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — playable in the right aggressive human shell, invisible everywhere else.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data isn't currently available for Longbow Archer, which likely means supply is thin or the card is moving between printings — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its niche role and limited demand outside casual human tribal, it has historically been a bulk rare or cheap uncommon, and there's no reason to expect a significant premium.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.