Helitrooper

Helitrooper card image

Helitrooper: Creature - Human Soldier, Final Fantasy Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{W}
Mana value
2
Type
Creature - Human Soldier
Colour identity
White (W)
Power / toughness
1/2
Rarity
Rare
Set
Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)
Released
2025-06-13
Collector number
22
Artist
HAIKEI
Commander rank
7,958 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying

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About Helitrooper

Helitrooper is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white creature from Final Fantasy Commander (FIC), a Commander product released in June 2025. It is collector number 22 in that set, with art by HAIKEI. It costs {1}{W} (one generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/2 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Final Fantasy Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.27 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Flying

Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

Equip abilities you activate that target this creature cost {2} less to activate.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.27 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Helitrooper by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Helitrooper

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) #106Rare2025

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to Helitrooper, newest first.

  • Some Equipment creature cards in other sets have reconfigure, a different ability that attaches them to a creature. Reconfigure is not an equip ability, and reconfigure costs are not reduced by Helitrooper's last ability. Equip variants or equip abilities with restrictions, like the "equip legendary creature" ability of Wrecking Ball Arm, are still equip abilities, and their costs will be reduced by Helitrooper's last ability. (Sure, Helitrooper isn't normally legendary, but there are ways to fix that.)
  • Helitrooper's last ability reduces only the amount of generic mana you pay for equip abilities that target Helitrooper. For example, it will reduce {2} to {0}, but it will have no effect on an equip cost of {G}.

Similar cards

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Helitrooper is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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