Summit Sentinel
Creature — Elemental Soldier
When this creature dies, draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #22508
Summit Sentinel is a vanilla 3/2 for two mana with no abilities — what you see is exactly what you get, and what you get is a body that rarely justifies a deck slot. Efficient stats for its cost, but zero text means zero late-game relevance.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Summit Sentinel is legal everywhere but earns a slot almost nowhere. In Commander, a 3/2 with no text is outclassed by the hundreds of two-drops that also ramp, draw, or protect something. Pauper is the closest thing to a home — aggressive red commons compete on raw stats — but even there, creatures with haste, menace, or an enters-the-battlefield trigger consistently edge Summit Sentinel out. In constructed formats like Pioneer or Modern, two-mana creatures need to do real work to survive the cut, and this one doesn't.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Summit Sentinel is deep bulk — the floor of the market. That price reflects the card's utility accurately, and there's no pressure driving it higher.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.