Surging Sentinels
Creature — Human Soldier
First strike
Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as this spell from among those cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Coldsnap
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #30967
Surging Sentinels enters as a 3/3 first striker for four mana — acceptable stats — but the Battalion trigger that pumps it requires three attackers, making it a reward for boards you already have rather than a card that builds one. Serviceable in aggressive white go-wide shells, irrelevant everywhere else.
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 |
Surging Sentinels is a Pauper-legal common, and that's the one format where it competes — aggressive white weenie lists can trigger Battalion consistently enough to make the pump relevant. In Commander, four mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature is too low-impact; the format's wide-board aggro decks can find better payoffs at the same slot. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters: the card does nothing those formats care about. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict — fine on paper, outclassed in practice.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Surging Sentinels is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without a second thought. That price isn't going anywhere; there's no scarcity story here, just a creature that fills out Pauper playsets cheaply.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.