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Stormfront Riders

Creature — Human Soldier

Flying
When this creature enters, return two creatures you control to their owner's hand.
Whenever this creature or another creature is returned to your hand from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Time Spiral Remastered
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#21824
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Stormfront Riders card art
Stormfront Riders generates a free 1/1 Soldier token every time it or another creature you control returns to your hand, turning bounce effects into a token engine. The cost — five mana for a 3/3 flyer with a built-in return-two-creatures clause — is steep unless you're already looping enters-the-battlefield triggers, which is exactly where Zacama, Primal Calamity and similar reset commanders make it devastating.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Stormfront Riders is a Commander card through and through — the token-generation loop requires repeated bouncing, which demands the kind of dedicated synergy infrastructure only a 100-card singleton format rewards. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but entirely unplayed; five mana for a conditional token maker doesn't compete with the speed and power density of those formats. Modern is the same story: the card is legal and ignored, with no shell willing to invest this much setup. Commander is where Stormfront Riders actually functions, specifically in bounce-heavy or blink-heavy builds where the trigger fires multiple times per turn cycle and the Soldier tokens accumulate into a meaningful board presence.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Stormfront Riders is deep bulk — the price of a throwaway draft pick, not a Commander staple. It holds no financial value, but the low floor means there's zero barrier to picking up copies for any bounce or blink build where it earns a slot.

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