Minas Tirith Garrison
Creature — Human Soldier
Minas Tirith Garrison's power is equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap any number of untapped Humans you control. Draw a card for each Human tapped this way.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #15403
Minas Tirith Garrison enters with a 1/1 Human Soldier token and pumps every Human and Soldier you control whenever you attack — that's two relevant lines of text on a three-mana enchantment. The cost is real: it does nothing on the turn you play it, so you need a board to attack with before it earns its slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Minas Tirith Garrison — go-wide token strategies and Human or Soldier tribal decks can trigger the attack bonus every combat and compound advantage over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; three mana for a delayed anthem effect won't survive contact with those formats' tempo requirements. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: fine if the shell wants it, invisible otherwise.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Minas Tirith Garrison is bulk — easy to pick up, easy to cut without regret. Bulk enchantments with narrow tribal applicability don't tend to climb, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.