Mosquito Guard
Creature — Kithkin Soldier
First strike
Reinforce 1—
(, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Morningtide
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #25894
Mosquito Guard is a one-mana 1/1 with first strike and the ability to grant first strike to another creature until end of turn — cheap interaction stapled to a body. It's a role-player at best, and outside of formats that reward piling keywords onto small creatures, it rarely 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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mosquito Guard is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it only meaningfully competes in Pauper, where cheap first-strike enablers occasionally matter in aggressive white weenie shells. In Commander, a 1/1 that passes first strike once is far too low-impact to justify a slot — 99-card singleton demands more. Legacy and Vintage have no realistic use case for it; the card simply doesn't interact with those formats' axes of competition. Pauper is where Mosquito Guard is most at home, and even there it sits on the fringes of playability.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Mosquito Guard is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a commons box but rarely gets pulled out. There's no scarcity, no spiking demand, and no competitive context that would move the needle on price.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.