United Battlefront
Sorcery
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put up to two noncreature, nonland permanent cards with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #14172
United Battlefront gives your whole team +1/+1 and trample until end of turn — the kind of alpha-strike pump that turns a stalled board into a lethal attack. At two mana it's among the cheapest mass-pump spells available, and trample means your opponents can't just chump their way out of it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, United Battlefront earns its slot in any go-wide strategy that wants to close games through combat — token decks, elf balls, and soldier tribal all love a two-mana 'win now' button that blanks chump blockers. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it competes with Unnatural Growth and Craterhoof Behemoth effects, and while the single-use nature limits its ceiling, the low mana cost keeps it relevant in aggressive token shells. Legacy and Vintage have access to enough broken finishers that United Battlefront rarely makes the cut outside of budget builds. Standard is where it sees the most legitimate consideration — when the format lacks cheaper mass-pump options, two mana for a team-wide trample buff is genuinely threatening.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, United Battlefront is pure bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of without thinking about it. Bulk rares at this price point rarely spike unless they hit a competitive format in a meaningful way, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.