Amateur Hero
Creature — Human Hero
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man Eternal
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #24434
Amateur Hero enters as a 2/2 with lifelink for two mana — a reasonable rate — but the real text is the triggered ability that raises its power and toughness each time you gain life, turning every lifegain event into a clock. It's a payoff card, not an engine, so it lives and dies by how much life your deck gains per turn.
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 |
In Commander, Amateur Hero is a role-player in dedicated lifegain builds — it scales fast in a format where 40 starting life and group-hug effects create frequent gain triggers, and lifelink means it fuels its own growth in combat. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; neither format runs fair two-mana creatures that need time to grow. Pauper is where Amateur Hero has the most realistic competitive ceiling, since the format's lifegain synergies are genuine and the creature costs are honest — a 2/2 lifelink for two is a reasonable floor in a deck built around it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Amateur Hero is bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Demand from Pauper lifegain lists keeps a soft floor here, but don't expect movement unless the archetype breaks out.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.