Ardent Plea
Enchantment
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $1.74
- EDHREC rank
- #15497
Ardent Plea drops a free cascade trigger onto a permanent that sticks until someone removes it — at three mana in Azorius-plus colors, that's an absurd rate for any deck built around enchantments or keyword-stacking. Rafiq of the Many lists run it at nearly 40% inclusion for good reason: exalted plus cascade on the same card means every attack digs for more action while pumping your single attacker.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rafiq of the Many
Ardent Plea does double duty in Rafiq of the Many — the exalted trigger stacks directly with Rafiq's own exalted, and cascade fires every combat step, meaning a single swinging creature both hits harder and replaces itself with a free spell off the top.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ardent Plea is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker. Commander is its natural home — enchantress shells and Bant exalted builds treat it as a permanent source of cascade that also contributes to the keyword pile. In Legacy and Vintage it sees fringe play in cascade-combo decks, but dedicated cascade enablers with more flexibility generally edge it out. Modern is where it gets crowded: three-mana enchantments compete against faster, more resilient options, and the cascade trigger doesn't reliably hit the high-value spells those decks want. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander use case at a smaller table scale.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.74 cheap tier
At $1.74, Ardent Plea sits in budget-staple territory — cheap enough to slot without deliberation, but not a bulk throwaway. Demand is narrow enough to keep the price stable; it won't spike unless a cascade-matters Commander emerges and pulls the card into a wider audience.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.