Rhox Veteran
Creature — Rhino Soldier
Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)
Whenever this creature attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #23370
Rhox Veteran enters the battlefield and immediately hands every creature you control +1/+1 counters equal to its own power — on a 3/3 body, that's a three-counter flood across your whole board for five mana. The cost is steep enough that it only belongs in decks that can exploit those counters, but in the right shell it's a one-card board state.
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 |
Rhox Veteran is a Commander card — the effect scales with board width and counter synergies in ways that only a 100-card multiplayer format can reliably reward. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; five-mana sorcery-speed payoffs need a board presence that aggressive commons can't support. Modern, Legacy, and Vintage won't touch it — the rate is too slow and the effect too dependent on setup. Commander is where Rhox Veteran earns its keep, specifically in go-wide or +1/+1 counter decks where distributing three or more counters across five creatures at once closes out games.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Rhox Veteran is pure bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not buying singles. That price reflects niche appeal rather than low power; it just needs the right shell, and in that shell it costs almost nothing to test.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.