Vigilante Justice
Enchantment
Whenever a Human you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2020
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #16493
Vigilante Justice turns every human entering the battlefield into a Shock — four mana for an enchantment that does nothing on its own, but in the right shell it fires repeatedly without any additional investment. The catch is the commander dependency: outside a dedicated human-token engine like Norin the Wary, it's a blank permanent.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Norin the Wary
Norin the Wary blinks himself every single turn cycle, and Vigilante Justice converts each reentry trigger into a free point of damage to any target — stack enough damage doublers and the table dies to a 0/1 that never attacks.
Silvar, Devourer of the Free // Trynn, Champion of Freedom
Trynn, Champion of Freedom produces a Human token at the end of every combat in which you attacked, giving Vigilante Justice a reliable trigger engine; Silvar, Devourer of the Free then sacrifices those tokens for counters, so the enchantment slots naturally into a loop of make-trigger-sacrifice-repeat.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vigilante Justice is a Commander card through and through — the format's singleton rule and longer games give human-tribal engines the time to make repeated triggers matter. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; four mana for a conditional damage enchantment can't compete in those formats. Modern has the same problem: the effect is too slow and too narrow to slot into any competitive human shell when cheaper, more reliable payoffs exist. Commander is the one place where a dedicated Norin the Wary or human-token deck generates enough enters-the-battlefield triggers to make Vigilante Justice a genuine win condition.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Vigilante Justice is deep bulk — pick it up from any common bin without a second thought. Supply is high enough that the price has nowhere meaningful to go, so treat it as a free inclusion if the engine fits rather than anything to stockpile.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Norin the Wary
- Silvar, Devourer of the Free // Trynn, Champion of Freedom
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.