Staunch Defenders
Creature — Human Soldier
When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #30106
Staunch Defenders drops a 3/4 vigilance body and gains you 4 life the moment it hits the battlefield — relevant padding against aggro and a useful flash threat at instant speed. Five mana for a 3/4 is underpowered by current standards, and the life gain rarely tilts a game enough to justify the slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Staunch Defenders is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Pauper it's the most plausible home — life gain and a reasonable body at common rarity can matter in a slower, grindier pool — but even there it competes with more efficient options. In Commander, Staunch Defenders is too slow and too low-impact for a 100-card singleton format where every card needs to pull serious weight; five mana for a 3/4 with incidental life gain doesn't advance a game plan.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Staunch Defenders isn't currently available, but as a bulk common from an older set it almost certainly sits at or near $0.25 or less. Picking it up costs nearly nothing, though the ceiling on its usefulness is equally low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.