Ordruun Veteran
Creature — Minotaur Soldier
Battalion — Whenever this creature and at least two other creatures attack, this creature gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #26264
Ordruun Veteran enters with a battalion trigger that pumps a creature +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its own power — doubling a threat's offense the moment three attackers are declared. The cost is real: you need a board presence before it does anything, and the effect evaporates at end of combat.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ordruun Veteran is a fringe role-player in Commander, where its battalion condition is easiest to satisfy in wide-aggro strategies — Boros token builds, go-wide human tribal, or anything that wants to push damage through in one large swing. In Modern and Pioneer it competes against a deep pool of three-drops that don't require combat setup to earn their text, which keeps it out of serious consideration there. Legacy and Vintage offer no context where it would see a slot. Commander is the ceiling for Ordruun Veteran, and even there it earns a spot only in specific decks that can reliably field three attackers and have a finisher worth doubling.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Ordruun Veteran is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. There's no trajectory here that changes that; its narrow, combat-dependent effect keeps demand low and the price floor at the floor.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.