Ambitious Farmhand // Seasoned Cathar
Creature — Human Peasant // Creature — Human Knight
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Coven — 
: Transform this creature. Activate only if you control three or more creatures with different powers.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.55
- EDHREC rank
- #10662
Ambitious Farmhand // Seasoned Cathar does two real things for two mana: it finds a basic Plains on entry, then transforms into a 2/2 lifelinker the moment any creature dies — including itself. Dion, Bahamut's Dominant lists it in roughly 14% of builds because that front-facing tutor quietly fixes white's mana while the back half generates incidental combat pressure, all without spending a card slot on a strictly worse effect.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant wants a reliable stream of creatures entering and dying, and Ambitious Farmhand // Seasoned Cathar delivers both halves of that loop — the Farmhand front fetches a Plains to keep Dion's activated ability firing on curve, and the Cathar back provides a lifelink body that rewards the sacrifice-and-replace cycle Dion is already running.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ambitious Farmhand // Seasoned Cathar earns its slot in any white deck that needs low-cost land fixing and doesn't want to spend two mana on a card that does nothing but ramp — the lifelink transform is genuinely free value in creature-heavy or sacrifice builds. In Modern and Pioneer, the Farmhand side competes against a crowded field of two-mana white utility creatures, and the ETB rarely bridges a meaningful tempo gap; it sees fringe sideboard consideration in slower lifegain shells but isn't a mainstay. Legacy and Vintage are too fast for a two-mana conditional tutor at sorcery speed, making Ambitious Farmhand // Seasoned Cathar effectively irrelevant in those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.55 bulk tier
At $0.55, Ambitious Farmhand // Seasoned Cathar sits in bulk territory — correct pricing for a card with a narrow competitive footprint and broad Commander availability. It's a stable pickup with no realistic upside pressure, so there's no urgency to buylist it or stock up.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dion, Bahamut's Dominant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.