Selfless Police Captain
Creature — Human Detective
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, put its +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #15956
Selfless Police Captain trades itself to give your entire team indestructible until end of turn — a combat trick that doubles as a board wipe counter at instant speed. The cost is real: you're down a creature and paying two mana, so it only earns its slot when the board state makes that exchange profitable.
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 |
In Commander, Selfless Police Captain is a niche include — it earns its slot in go-wide white strategies that need insurance against Wrath of God effects, particularly in lower-powered pods where the one-time-use sacrifice cost is less punishing. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's too slow and too conditional; Teferi's Protection or Heroic Intervention do the same job without the creature investment. Standard offers the most realistic non-Commander home, where limited card pools make instant-speed indestructible on a body more viable. Pauper is where it's actually interesting — sweepers are scarce, but the protection effect can steal games in white aggro.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Selfless Police Captain is deep bulk — you'll find it in bulk bins or pick up a playset for the price of a pack. Bulk rares with narrow applications don't typically climb without a breakout tournament moment, and nothing in this card's design profile points toward one.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.