Ambitious Augmenter
Creature — Turtle Wizard
Increment (Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana you spent is greater than this creature's power or toughness, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
When this creature dies, if it had one or more counters on it, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token, then put this creature's counters on that token.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.73
- EDHREC rank
- #18520
Ambitious Augmenter enters with a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control that has a counter on it — in the right deck, that's a board-wide pump stapled to a 3/2 body for three mana. If your deck is already stacking counters, this is an efficient payoff; if it isn't, it's just a vanilla.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ambitious Augmenter is a Commander card first and almost exclusively. The ETB trigger scales with a counters-matter strategy, and Commander gives you the time to build that board state before it arrives. In 1v1 formats like Modern or Pioneer, a 3/2 for three that conditionally pumps your team once is too slow and too conditional against interactive decks that answer the board before the Augmenter lands. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it. Standard is the one place outside Commander where a dedicated counters shell — built around cards like Luminarch Aspirant or Hopeful Initiate — could extract real value from it, but even there it competes with more consistent payoffs.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.73 bulk tier
At $0.73, Ambitious Augmenter is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that can swing a board state in the right deck. The price is unlikely to climb without a spike in counters-matter Commander demand, but at this tier you can slot it in speculatively and never feel the loss.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.