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he's a avatar that produces tokens that he lords over. pretty sweet :P

i think wizards should have made it suspend XWWW- after last time counter is removed benalish commander enters the battlefield with X soldier tokens.

still a very good card tho.

So if you play this guy in a mono white deck... then why shouldn't you suspend him.
4 mana for him
or 3 mana for him with haste and 1/1 soldier. only drawback is that you can't use him to block.

One of my favorite cards in all of Magic. Exemplifies a rare that anyone would be excited over.

Also, he looks like a badass.

Just not Benalish without Banding.

This seems to be a 'White Seige-Gang Commander'. Cool.

What I like about cards like this is that they allow you to do something really different- make a multi-tribal deck.

This card, all on it's own, can make a whole Soldier subtheme in your deck, at the price of no more than 4 card slots.

For an excellent example of how to take advantage of this opportunity, consider Kaalia of the Vast EDH. Sometimes it's fun to just go straight all-out Demons, Dragons, and Angels. But sometimes you want to go a bit bigger and more Epic than that. Sometims you wish you could have your giant flying beasts lead a huge army. Cards like this let you do that.

If you devote just a single space in your EDH deck to this card, you could wind up with a LOT of tokens.

Sure, not every game. Maybe not even every game you draw it. But the potential is there for him to become a one-card army. If you put a lot of different one card armies together, and then slap down a Coat of Arms, you can make a very epic battlefield. :)

Run him with Darien, King of Kjeldor and he gets bigger the more damage you take.

This guy can be good, but only when suspended for x = 1 and with lots of other Soldier support. But T1 Icatian Javelineers, T2 Raise The Alarm, T3 (this guy) is a scary start.

If he's suspended for more than 1 turn his usefulness starts to fall off in my opinion - the Soldiers he makes just show up too slowly, both because of the extra mana you need to use and because of the Suspend mechanic.

Combine this with either of the Elspeths, although I think Knight-Errant would be better because making the token makes it stronger, for crazy soldier fun.

Just badass-walkin' right through that time rift.

"Dunno where--or when--I'm going, but I'm going to soldier the crap out of it."

"Human Soldier Lord." Seems to be trying to hit as many types as they could squeeze on.