Tajuru Stalwart
Creature — Elf Scout Ally
Converge — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27004
Tajuru Stalwart enters as a 0/1 to 6/7 depending on how many colors you can pour into its converge cost, making it one of the most scalable cheap creatures in multicolor formats. The ceiling is real, but so is the floor — in anything fewer than four colors, you're paying two mana for a body that embarrasses itself.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tajuru Stalwart is a Commander card first and nearly exclusively. In five-color EDH shells it's a two-mana 6/7, which is the kind of rate that earns a slot on stats alone. In Pauper it's legal but underwhelming — common-level mana fixing rarely supports four or five colors consistently, so you're usually looking at a 2/3 or 3/4, and that body doesn't clear the bar. Modern and Pioneer have the fixing to theoretically max it out, but neither format wants a vanilla creature at any size, so it sees no competitive play there. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem compounded — the power level demanded makes even a 6/7 for two irrelevant without an enters-the-battlefield effect or evasion attached.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Tajuru Stalwart is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box rather than buy outright. There's no meaningful price floor to erode here; it will stay at this tier indefinitely unless a future format shift or precon inclusion creates sudden demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.