Village Survivors
Creature — Human
Vigilance
Fateful hour — As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control have vigilance.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #30617
Village Survivors puts a 4/4 with ward 2 and indestructible into play every end step you control the most creatures — the kind of sustained pressure that ends games without requiring any setup. Six mana is real, but once it's active, opponents need multiple answers to contain a board that just keeps growing.
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 |
Commander is where Village Survivors earns its keep — go-wide token strategies can trigger it consistently, and indestructible blockers compound an already wide board while taxing opponents who try to interact. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; six mana and a condition tied to creature count don't compete in formats defined by speed and efficiency. Modern is technically legal but Village Survivors asks too much for too little at that cost in a format with tighter curve expectations. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's casual, permanent-based texture that it can slot into creature-dense builds there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Village Survivors is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a combo or format shift puts them on the map, and nothing on the horizon points that direction here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.