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Patrolling Peacemaker

Artifact Creature — Robot Soldier

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever an opponent commits a crime, proliferate. (They commit a crime if they target an opponent, anything an opponent controls, and/or cards in an opponent's graveyard. To proliferate, you choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Edge of Eternities Commander
Price
$0.89
EDHREC rank
#2518
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Patrolling Peacemaker card art
Patrolling Peacemaker enters with a +1/+1 counter and hands out more counters to creatures that deal combat damage — free incremental growth every attack step, no mana investment required after the initial cast. The cost is that Bloodcrazed Hoplite and similar payoffs need to connect, which means the engine stalls against go-wide blockers or removal-heavy tables; Inspirit, Flagship Vessel turns that vulnerability into a non-issue by giving your attackers free shots from orbit.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

80.9% of decks · synergy 0.65

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel's ability to make creatures attack without being blocked slots Patrolling Peacemaker into an automatic counter-stacking engine — every combat becomes a guaranteed trigger, no blocks, no negotiation.

02
Kilo, Apogee Mind

Kilo, Apogee Mind

77.3% of decks · synergy 0.62

Kilo, Apogee Mind rewards proliferating and stacking counters on multiple permanents, and Patrolling Peacemaker feeds that engine by spreading +1/+1 counters across the board every time anything connects.

04
Kros, Defense Contractor

Kros, Defense Contractor

47.9% of decks · synergy 0.45

Kros, Defense Contractor's strategy hinges on putting counters on opponents' creatures to goad them, and Patrolling Peacemaker accelerates that plan by adding counters through combat damage rather than burning Kros's own trigger.

05
Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Tayam, Luminous Enigma

38.9% of decks · synergy 0.37

Tayam, Luminous Enigma removes counters from permanents to reanimate small creatures, and Patrolling Peacemaker constantly replenishes that counter pool through combat, keeping Tayam's engine fueled across multiple turns.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Patrolling Peacemaker lives — multiplayer combat means more opportunities to connect, more creatures to spread counters across, and more synergy commanders waiting to exploit the accumulation. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but the card has no competitive footprint there; the combat-damage-counter payoff is too slow and conditional against decks built around faster, more reliable engines. Oathbreaker offers a condensed version of the same counter-synergy shells that make it work in Commander, so it sees some fringe play there. Outside those formats, Patrolling Peacemaker simply isn't legal, and the competitive formats it can't enter wouldn't want it anyway.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.89 bulk tier

At $0.89, Patrolling Peacemaker is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with real synergy upside in the right shell. Bulk rares with narrow but high-inclusion rates in their niche tend to hold at this floor, so there's no meaningful price risk in picking up copies now.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.