Loxodon Sergeant
Creature — Elephant Soldier
Vigilance
When this creature enters, other creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- War of the Spark
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #24876
Loxodon Sergeant enters the battlefield and immediately grants your entire team vigilance for the turn, then leaves a 3/3 body behind — that's a two-for-one effect stapled to a creature at four mana. It's a role-player in token-wide strategies, not a staple, but it does exactly what it says on the tin.
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 |
Loxodon Sergeant is a Commander card through and through — the format's multiplayer dynamics make blanket vigilance genuinely useful, since swinging into one opponent while leaving blockers up matters far more in a four-player game. In token-centric builds under commanders like Jetmir, Nexus of Revels or Rhys the Redeemed, the ETB scales hard with board width. Outside Commander, Loxodon Sergeant is too slow and too replaceable: Pauper has cheaper vigilance enablers, and competitive Constructed formats have long since moved past a four-mana 3/3 with a conditional bonus.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Loxodon Sergeant is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without a second thought. Bulk rares rarely climb without a Standard reprint or combo spike, and nothing about this card's design suggests either is coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.