You're Confronted by Robbers
Instant
Choose one —
• Stall for Time — Tap up to three target creatures.
• Call for Aid — Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #15577
You're Confronted by Robbers is a two-mana instant that taps a creature and loots — net card neutral, but the tempo hit on an attacker or blocker is real. Narrow enough that it mostly lives in Draft chaff, but the adventure typing and choose-your-own-adventure framing give it marginal constructed relevance in the right shell.
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 |
You're Confronted by Robbers is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, the effect is too small — tapping one creature and looting once doesn't scale to a 100-card, four-player game unless you're specifically engineering adventure or choose-a-chapter synergies. Pauper is the most plausible home, where tempo-positive commons matter more and the loot effect has higher marginal value on a budget mana curve. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; those formats demand effects orders of magnitude more powerful for the same two mana.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, You're Confronted by Robbers is bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Don't expect the price to move; there's no competitive demand driving it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.