Yotian Frontliner
Artifact Creature — Soldier
Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Unearth 
(: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #20600
Yotian Frontliner is a one-mana artifact creature that swings with vigilance and pumps itself whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control. The payoff is real in dedicated artifact shells, but it does nothing in isolation — it needs volume to matter.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Yotian Frontliner earns a slot in artifact-go-wide decks that flood the board with tokens or cheap artifacts — it gets out of hand fast when the triggers stack. In Modern and Pioneer, the one-mana entry point is attractive, but it competes with more explosive one-drops in aggressive artifact strategies and rarely makes the cut outside of budget builds. Legacy and Vintage have enough broken artifact infrastructure to give it theoretically relevant context, but the power bar there is simply too high for a vanilla-ish threat to see play. Yotian Frontliner is a Commander card at heart.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Yotian Frontliner is firmly bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk artifact synergy pieces rarely climb unless a new Commander precon or set pushes the archetype hard, so don't expect this to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.