Pardic Lancer
Creature — Human Barbarian
Discard a card at random: This creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #30160
Pardic Lancer is a six-mana 3/3 with first strike that costs an additional two mana to unlock — a rate so far below curve that no competitive format wants it. Bulk rare energy for a reason.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pardic Lancer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper, where every mana counts, a 3/3 first striker that demands eight total mana for its full stat line loses to nearly every comparable creature at half the cost. Commander is the most forgiving format on rate, but even there, six mana for a 3/3 with a conditional upside is a hard sell when the format is packed with creatures that threaten the board immediately. Pardic Lancer finds no meaningful home in any of these formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Pardic Lancer sits at the floor of bulk pricing — the kind of card that fills a common box and never leaves it. There is no demand pressure to push that price up, and there never will be.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.