Sigardian Zealot
Creature — Human Cleric
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose any number of creatures with different powers. Each of them gets +X/+X and gains vigilance until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Midnight Hunt Commander
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #14274
Sigardian Zealot drops a +1/+1 counter on every Human you control at the start of combat — across a full board, that's a game-ending pump for five mana. The rate is real, and in any Human-tribal shell that can protect it for even one swing, it closes games.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kyler, Sigardian Emissary
Kyler, Sigardian Emissary already stacks counters on himself whenever a Human enters; Sigardian Zealot turns that engine into a board-wide threat by spreading counters to every Human at combat, making the whole team a problem instead of just the commander.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sigardian Zealot is a Commander card through and through — its payoff scales with the number of creatures you control, and only EDH's 100-card singleton format reliably puts enough Humans on the battlefield to make five mana feel like a bargain. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it's too slow and too reliant on a board state that those formats never allow you to build. Commander is the only context where Sigardian Zealot earns its slot, specifically in Human-tribal builds where the combat-step trigger can hit six or more creatures.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Sigardian Zealot sits firmly in bulk territory, which means the financial barrier to inclusion is zero. Bulk rares with a narrow home tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency to pick up copies — but there's also no reason not to.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.