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Stalwarts of Osgiliath

Creature — Human Soldier

When this creature enters, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#17033
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Stalwarts of Osgiliath card art
Stalwarts of Osgiliath puts two 2/2 Human Soldier tokens with lifelink and vigilance on the board the moment it enters — that's four power and four toughness across two bodies for four mana, and both bodies pull weight in combat immediately. The cost is real: four mana for a vanilla-ish token producer is unimpressive in a vacuum, but commanders like Frodo, Sauron's Bane and Ratadrabik of Urborg turn those two bodies into engines rather than speed bumps.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Frodo, Sauron's Bane

Frodo, Sauron's Bane

31.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

Frodo, Sauron's Bane wants to flip into Sam and stack lifelink triggers, and Stalwarts of Osgiliath delivers two lifelink creatures the instant it resolves — accelerating the life-gain count while leaving vigilant blockers behind to protect Frodo along the way.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Stalwarts of Osgiliath is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually belongs. In Pauper it's legal but competing against aggressive commons that make a four-mana two-body setup too slow to matter. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all — four mana for tokens is generations behind what those formats tolerate. Commander is the right home because the multiplayer life total gives lifelink time to compound, token synergies are everywhere, and sacrifice or flicker strategies can wring extra value out of the enter-the-battlefield trigger in ways that 1v1 formats never allow.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Stalwarts of Osgiliath is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a common box, not budgeting for it. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so don't expect movement, but there's no reason not to own a copy if the deck calls for it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.