Volunteer Militia
Creature — Human Soldier
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #28729
Volunteer Militia is a 3/1 for three mana with first strike and no other text — a vanilla-adjacent body that trades inefficiently in combat and does nothing else. There is no shell in 2025 Magic where this rate is acceptable.
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 |
Volunteer Militia is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not endorsement. In Commander, a 3/1 first striker for three mana is so far below the power floor that no archetype wants it — token strategies have better three-drops, Voltron decks need evasion or utility, and aggro doesn't exist at the format's pace. Legacy and Vintage have access to every efficient creature ever printed, so Volunteer Militia never sees play there either. Pauper is the one format where commons get genuine scrutiny, but even that format's floor is well above a vanilla 3/1 with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no keyword beyond first strike, and no tribal tag worth caring about.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Volunteer Militia sits firmly in bulk — the kind of card that fills a box and never leaves it. That price reflects the card's actual demand, which is essentially zero, and there's no trajectory that changes it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.