Valiant Guard
Creature — Human Soldier
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #27205
Valiant Guard is a 0/4 defender for one white mana — maximum blocking body for minimum investment. It sees fringe play in lifegain and defender-tribal shells, but outside those specific contexts, a creature that will never deal combat damage earns its slot only if you're actively building around it.
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 |
In Commander, Valiant Guard earns a spot almost exclusively in defender-tribal decks or lifegain engines that reward having bodies on board — outside those shells, a 0/4 with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no offensive capability is easy to cut. In Pauper, where cheap walls occasionally anchor aggressive stall strategies, Valiant Guard competes with defenders that bring more text, and usually loses that competition. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card doesn't interact with anything those formats care about. The honest read: Valiant Guard is a Commander card for one specific archetype, and it knows it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Valiant Guard is deep bulk — pick it out of a commons box and don't think twice. There's no realistic scenario where this moves off the floor, so buy exactly as many as you need and move on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.