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Sunstrike Legionnaire

Creature — Human Soldier

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever another creature enters, untap this creature.
{T}: Tap target creature with mana value 3 or less.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Legions
Price
$1.10
EDHREC rank
#16779
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Sunstrike Legionnaire card art
Sunstrike Legionnaire turns any tap ability into a repeatable loop — pair it with a creature that taps for value and it untaps itself for free, requiring no mana to sustain the engine. Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds is the flagship home, where the Legionnaire's self-untap synergizes with token-copying triggers to generate absurd board states at minimal cost.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds

Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds

16.4% of decks · synergy 0.16

Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds copies creatures when it attacks, and Sunstrike Legionnaire's untap trigger fires every time a creature with a tap ability enters — in this deck, that's a loop that accelerates into an overwhelming token board with little outside support.

02
Hylda of the Icy Crown

Hylda of the Icy Crown

11.7% of decks · synergy 0.11

Hylda of the Icy Crown rewards tapping and untapping creatures with token generation and stat bonuses, and Sunstrike Legionnaire feeds that engine directly — each untap trigger is a potential Hylda payoff, turning the Legionnaire into a consistent source of incremental advantage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Sunstrike Legionnaire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's effectively a Commander card — the self-untap loop requires a critical mass of tap-ability creatures to matter, and 100-card singleton is the format that reliably assembles that density. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but never played; those formats have no patience for a 1/1 whose payoff depends on a board state. Commander is where the Legionnaire earns its slot, specifically in decks built around tap synergies, token generation, or combo lines that need a zero-cost untap effect on a creature body.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.10 cheap tier

At $1.10, Sunstrike Legionnaire sits in the cheap tier — low enough to include on spec in any tap-synergy build without a second thought. It's a narrow card with a real ceiling, so don't expect the price to move much, but there's no barrier to picking one up.

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