Nightguard Patrol
Creature — Human Soldier
First strike, vigilance
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #29134
Nightguard Patrol is a vanilla 2/3 vigilance for three mana — a stat line that stops mattering the moment you leave Limited. No enters-the-battlefield effect, no activated ability, no synergy text; there is nothing here that a Commander, Modern, or Pauper deck needs.
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 |
Nightguard Patrol is bulk filler in every format where it's legal. In Commander, a 2/3 body does nothing at a table where opponents are deploying threats with four, five, or six toughness by turn three, and vigilance on a vanilla creature is not a meaningful upside. Pauper is the one format where raw stats at common can occasionally matter, but even there a 2/3 for three with no text is outclassed by commons that trade stats for actual effects. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card doesn't interact with anything those formats care about.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Nightguard Patrol is deep bulk — the kind of card that sits in a common box and never moves. There is no scenario where demand pushes this above bulk pricing, because no competitive or casual archetype is looking for what it does.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.