Porcelain Zealot
Creature — Phyrexian Soldier
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If that creature has toxic, instead it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #18225
Porcelain Zealot is a one-mana 2/1 with first strike that costs two life to cast for white — a real body for a real price, but the life payment matters at 40-life tables far less than at 20. Playable filler in aggressive white shells, irrelevant everywhere else.
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 |
Porcelain Zealot is outclassed in every competitive format where one-drops compete on raw efficiency — Modern and Legacy both have one-mana creatures that do more without a life tax. In Commander, the life payment is nearly free given the 40-life starting total, but a vanilla 2/1 first strike rarely makes the cut in 99-card decks unless the deck is explicitly aggressive and counting bodies. Oathbreaker's smaller deck size and faster games make marginal one-drops slightly more relevant, though still not a priority inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Porcelain Zealot is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box. There's no price floor to speak of, and no competitive demand that would push it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.