Rappelling Scouts
Creature — Human Rebel Scout
Flying
: This creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #26321
Rappelling Scouts gives a creature protection from red until end of turn at instant speed for three mana — usable repeatedly by paying its ability cost each turn. The effect is real, but three mana per activation is steep enough that it rarely pulls its weight outside very specific white weenie or damage-prevention builds.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rappelling Scouts is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, repeatable protection effects have real utility in combat-heavy metas, but three mana per activation competes with just casting another threat or interaction, and white has cheaper options for keeping creatures alive. Legacy and Vintage don't want a three-mana 1/3 whose ability costs even more. Oathbreaker narrows the card pool but still doesn't make Rappelling Scouts a priority.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Rappelling Scouts sits firmly in bulk territory. There's no meaningful demand driving the price up, and nothing on the horizon that changes the card's narrow role.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.