Rockcaster Platoon
Creature — Rhino Soldier
: This creature deals 2 damage to each creature with flying and each player.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #29881
Rockcaster Platoon hits every creature with flying for 2 damage the moment it enters — at seven mana, that's a lot of setup for a conditional board wipe that leaves flyers with three toughness or more completely untouched. It's too narrow and too expensive to justify a slot outside of very specific token-go-wide metas.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rockcaster Platoon occupies a narrow niche: a seven-mana creature that shocks everything with flying is redundant when white and green have cheaper, cleaner answers to aerial threats. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — seven mana for a 5/6 with a conditional ETB is nowhere near competitive in any of those formats. If Rockcaster Platoon has a home at all, it's in casual Commander pods where flying tokens are the dominant threat and you want redundancy beyond Fell the Mighty.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Rockcaster Platoon is deep bulk — you can pick up a copy for almost nothing. That price reflects demand accurately; this is a niche roleplayer at best, and it won't appreciate unless a new commander dramatically narrows the target.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.