Warmind Infantry
Creature — Elemental Soldier
Battalion — Whenever this creature and at least two other creatures attack, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28599
Warmind Infantry puts a hasty attacker on the board the turn it lands and buffs itself every time you cast a spell, making it a legitimate threat in spell-heavy red decks. The cost is that a 2/2 for three is a mediocre baseline — you need a critical mass of instant and sorcery support to make the stats worth the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Warmind Infantry is a role-player in Izzet or mono-red spell-slinger builds — it rewards the same behavior those decks already want, and haste means it contributes to combat the turn it arrives. Across competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, a 2/2 for three that grows incrementally is simply too slow against removal-dense fields and faster clocks. Pioneer and Pauper are its best homes outside Commander, where efficient threats are more constrained and the spell-trigger payoff can actually accumulate over a few turns. Vintage barely registers it — the format ends before Infantry becomes relevant.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Warmind Infantry is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up from a common box without thinking twice. Bulk commons almost never appreciate, so run it because it fits your deck, not because you expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.