Sontaran General
Creature — Alien Soldier
Trample, haste
Battalion — Whenever this creature and at least two other creatures attack, for each opponent, goad up to one target creature that player controls. Those creatures can't block this turn. (Until your next turn, they attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #14912
Sontaran General lands and immediately drains every opponent for the number of creature types you control — in a typal or Doctor Who shell, that's a four- or five-point life swing the turn it enters. The Rani and similar commanders that pack multiple creature types make that ceiling absurdly easy to hit for a three-mana 3/3.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Davros, Dalek Creator
Davros, Dalek Creator floods the board with Dalek tokens while drawing out a mix of creature types from the Doctor Who card pool, giving Sontaran General a wide enough type count to drain each opponent for a meaningful chunk every time it enters or gets blinked.
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 |
Sontaran General is a Commander card in practice — the typal density and multi-opponent life total structure of EDH are exactly what make its drain trigger matter. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but irrelevant: a three-mana 3/3 with a conditional drain effect doesn't compete in formats where the game is often decided by turn two. Commander is the only format where the card earns its slot, and specifically in Doctor Who or heavily typal builds where creature-type diversity is already built into the deck's identity.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Sontaran General is pure bulk — there's no financial barrier to picking up a copy. Bulk rares from niche licensed sets rarely climb unless a format-warping shell emerges, so treat this as a role-player you grab for a dollar lot, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.