Resistance Fighter
Creature — Human Soldier
Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage target creature would deal this turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Classic Sixth Edition
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #26953
Resistance Fighter is a one-mana white creature that untaps a target creature you control whenever it attacks — straightforward, repeatable, and cheap enough to slot in without a second thought. It earns its keep in tap-to-win strategies where untapping a key piece every combat step is the whole game plan.
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 |
In Commander, Resistance Fighter finds its home in decks built around creatures with powerful tap abilities — think Exquisite Archangel loops or Krenko, Mob Boss engines where one extra untap per turn multiplies output significantly. Outside Commander, it's technically legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Pauper, but none of those formats have a compelling reason to run a vanilla-feeling 1/1 that only rewards you if you're swinging with it. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where a budget synergy piece like Resistance Fighter could theoretically see fringe play in a dedicated tap-abuse shell, but it doesn't show up in established lists. Stick to Commander as the format where it actually does work.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Resistance Fighter is pure bulk — you're picking it up as a throw-in or out of a common box, not hunting it down. That price is stable by definition; there's no demand pressure to move it in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.