Veteran's Voice
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
Tap enchanted creature: Target creature other than the creature tapped this way gets +2/+1 until end of turn. Activate only if enchanted creature is untapped.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alliances
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #27615
Veteran's Voice turns any tapped creature into a repeatable pump-and-tap engine for one mana to equip — the on-board ceiling is high in token and tap-synergy shells. The catch is that the equipped creature must already be tapped to activate, which chains it permanently to attack or prior tap effects and cuts it off from blocking entirely.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Veteran's Voice earns its slot specifically in decks that tap creatures for value outside of combat — Krenko, Mob Boss, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, and similar tap-engine commanders can fire the ability multiple times per turn without ever swinging. Outside of those shells it's a narrow card, since most creature-based Commander decks already have stronger anthem effects that don't require the equipped creature to be tapped. In Pauper, Veteran's Voice is legal but faces stiff competition from cheaper and less conditional pump auras, and the tap requirement is a bigger liability in a format where blocking matters. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically legal but have no realistic application — the effect simply doesn't scale.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Veteran's Voice is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a real, if narrow, payoff. It won't hold or gain value, but in the right tap-synergy Commander deck it punches well above its price tag.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.