Rock Soldiers
Artifact Creature — Elemental Soldier
When this creature enters, destroy up to one target noncreature artifact.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #24858
Rock Soldiers is a 4/3 for five mana with no abilities — a vanilla body in a format where five-mana slots demand immediate board impact or a combo role. There is no context in which this is the right card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rock Soldiers is legal in every major format and unplayable in all of them. In Commander, a 4/3 vanilla for five competes against haymakers that draw cards, generate tokens, or win the game — it loses that competition at every table. In Pauper, where commons matter and efficiency is paramount, a five-mana 4/3 with no text doesn't make cuts. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer are categorically out of reach; those formats have moved so far past vanilla creatures at this cost that Rock Soldiers is a historical curiosity, not a consideration.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Rock Soldiers sits at the absolute floor of bulk pricing — the kind of card that fills a bulk box and rarely leaves it. That price won't move; there's no competitive application or casual demand to push it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.