Conclave Sledge-Captain
Conclave Sledge-Captain: Creature - Elephant Soldier, March of the Machine Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}{G}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Creature - Elephant Soldier
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
- Released
- 2023-04-21
- Collector number
- 36
- Artist
- Ilse Gort
- Commander rank
- 7,349 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Backup, Trample
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About Conclave Sledge-Captain
Conclave Sledge-Captain is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green creature from March of the Machine Commander (MOC), a Commander product released in April 2023. It is collector number 36 in that set, with art by Ilse Gort. It costs {5}{G} (five generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 4/4 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. March of the Machine Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.76 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Backup 1, backup 1, backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn. Each backup ability triggers separately.)
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.76 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Conclave Sledge-Captain by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Conclave Sledge-Captain
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #123 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Conclave Sledge-Captain, newest first.
- If a backup ability causes another creature to gain abilities, the creature with backup will still have those abilities.
- Backup confers only abilities that are actually printed below it. Any abilities that are gained by the permanent are ignored, including abilities gained due to a resolving spell or ability or copy effects.
- If a backup ability targets the creature with backup, that creature will get +1/+1 counters, but it won’t gain additional abilities.
- If the same creature is the target of more than one of Conclave Sledge-Captain’s backup abilities, it will get more than one instance of its triggered ability. Each of those triggered abilities triggers separately. If the creature deals combat damage to a player, it will get that many +1/+1 counters more than once. (It will also have trample more than once, but that’s way less interesting.)
- The abilities that backup grants to the target creature are determined only once, at the time the ability triggers. They won’t change if the permanent with backup loses any abilities before the backup ability resolves.
- If a permanent enters the battlefield as a copy of a card with a backup ability or a token is created that is a copy of that card, the order of the printed abilities is maintained.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Conclave Sledge-Captain is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.