Veteran Brawlers
Creature — Human Soldier
This creature can't attack if defending player controls an untapped land.
This creature can't block if you control an untapped land.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $1.89
- EDHREC rank
- #26154
Veteran Brawlers drops a 4/4 for two mana — one of the best stats-per-mana ratios in the game — with the condition that you control no lands or your opponent controls more lands than you do. That downside is trivially managed in the right shell, and outside of it, you simply don't run this card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Veteran Brawlers is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card at heart — the multiplayer table creates enough land-count variance across opponents that its condition flips on naturally in the early turns. In Legacy and Vintage, a 4/4 for two is genuinely impressive on rate, but the condition is a real liability against decks that develop mana slowly or match your land count step for step, and those formats offer cleaner two-drop threats without strings attached. Oathbreaker sits between the two: lower land counts and faster games mean Veteran Brawlers can be a bruiser, but the narrower card pool makes it harder to build around the downside deliberately.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.89 cheap tier
At $1.89, Veteran Brawlers sits in the budget-rare tier — cheap enough to slot in without a second thought if the condition fits your build. It's a card with a narrow home, so don't expect price movement; supply will keep it right here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.