Yotian Soldier
Artifact Creature — Soldier
Vigilance
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #25388
Yotian Soldier is a 1/4 vigilance artifact creature for three mana — durable enough to block repeatedly without tapping, but that's the ceiling. Outside of artifact synergy decks that want the creature type or the body on the board, it doesn't do enough to justify a slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Yotian Soldier is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing meaningful play in almost none of them. In Commander, it finds a home only in artifact-matters decks — think Breya, Etherium Shaper or Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer — where the artifact type matters more than the stats. In Pauper it's outclassed by cheaper, more impactful commons at every point on the curve. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana 1/4 that doesn't generate value.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Yotian Soldier is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the card. It won't hold or gain value, but if you need the artifact creature body for a synergy slot, the financial cost is negligible.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.