Rally the Forces
Instant
Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #24351
Rally the Forces gives your whole attacking team first strike until end of turn and draws you a card — all for three mana at instant speed. It's a combat trick with a cantrip stapled on, and in go-wide red decks that need to punch through blockers, it pulls real weight.
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 |
In Commander, Rally the Forces fits narrow but functional — it belongs in token-heavy or combat-focused red decks where swinging with six or more creatures makes the first-strike pump genuinely back-breaking, and the cantrip means you're not down a card for playing it. In Pauper, it's a legitimate combat trick in aggressive red strategies, where removing blockers or forcing bad trades at common rarity matters. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage are too fast and too threat-dense for a three-mana instant that doesn't affect the board state beyond one combat — Rally the Forces doesn't make the cut in those formats outside of fringe token shells.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Rally the Forces is deep bulk — you're not buying this for value, you're buying it because it does a job and costs almost nothing. It won't hold or gain price; pick up copies for the deck that wants it and move on.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.