Voice of Victory
Creature — Human Bard
Mobilize 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, create two tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.)
Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $20.50
- EDHREC rank
- #598
Voice of Victory lands as a one-sided board pump that gives your whole team +1/+1 and first strike whenever it attacks — an effect that ends games rather than enables them. In Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver shells running aggressive two-commander beatdown, that's often all the push needed to close out a combat step that was already favorable.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver
Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver runs a wide aggressive board that wants to swing in early and often, and Voice of Victory's attack trigger turns a board of small threats into a wall that trades up while also threatening lethal.
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful builds around a legendary-heavy creature base, and Voice of Victory's pump effect gives that board the combat math distortion needed to punch through midrange blockers.
Zurgo, Thunder's Decree
Zurgo, Thunder's Decree rewards attacking with multiple creatures simultaneously, and Voice of Victory's first strike grant across the board turns a wide swing into near-guaranteed favorable trades.
Zurgo Stormrender
Zurgo Stormrender pushes aggressive combat as its primary game plan, and Voice of Victory stacks directly onto that strategy by making every attacker harder to profitably block.
Plagon, Lord of the Beach
Plagon, Lord of the Beach goes wide with a tribal or token-adjacent creature base, and Voice of Victory converts that width into a first-strike wall that opponents can't race through cleanly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Voice of Victory is legal across every major Constructed format but is doing real work in Commander, where one-sided combat buffs scale hardest with the wide boards the format encourages. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too dependent on already having attackers — aggro decks want cheaper, more immediate payoffs, and a 3/3 flyer for four that only matters on the attack step doesn't clear that bar. Legacy and Vintage are simply too fast for it to matter. Commander is where it belongs: the four-mana cost is acceptable at a 40-life table, the flying body is a relevant attacker, and the mass first strike on attack routinely swings combat math in ways that close out stalled boards.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If Voice of Victory's price is the issue, Tymna the Weaver herself (in shells that can run her as part of the 99) and Odric, Lunarch Marshal are the closest functional parallels — Odric distributes keyword soup including first strike to your whole board at the start of combat, which often does more total work, and he sits well under a dollar. The trade-off is that Odric requires you to already have a first-strike creature in play and distributes abilities symmetrically among your creatures rather than granting a flat pump, so the ceiling is higher but the floor is more conditional.
Price Context
Current price
$20.50 premium tier
At $20.50, Voice of Victory sits firmly in premium territory for a Commander role-player — that's a price point typically reserved for tutors, fast mana, or combo pieces, and a combat-pump creature doesn't have the same format-warping ceiling. It holds value in high-synergy aggressive shells, but if the price climbs further it becomes hard to justify over cheaper alternatives that approximate the effect.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver
- Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
- Zurgo, Thunder's Decree
- Zurgo Stormrender
- Plagon, Lord of the Beach
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.