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Battalion Foot Soldier

Creature — Human Soldier2 generic manaWhite mana

Cast one and it goes looking for its own kind: the enters trigger reaches into the library to pull every other copy into hand at once. There is nothing else on the card, and the 2/2 body is deliberately plain filler. Still, it belongs to a small tradition of self-assembling commons that turn a stack of identical cards into a soft consistency engine. The tutor is optional and searches for "any number," so it scales with how many copies you own: one draws a fistful, three left in the deck each fetch the survivors, and by the end you are casting bodies you already know are coming rather than gambling on the top of your library. The reliability has a cost, though. Emptying nonlands out of the deck raises the land ratio in what remains, so the front-loaded certainty comes with slightly flooded draws later; the engine trades late-game variance for early predictability, not the other way around. A single copy rewards no attention whatsoever, and that is the design working as intended: the value is structural, accruing across a pile of them, and it collapses back into an unremarkable two-power human the instant you are holding only one.

Battalion Foot Soldier (m20)
M20 · #7common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards named Battalion Foot Soldier, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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