Brazen Upstart
Creature — Elf Shaman
Vigilance
When this creature dies, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #21776
Brazen Upstart tutors any creature card to your hand when it dies — that's a real effect stapled to a 3/3 body for four mana. The cost is that you're paying four for a creature that does nothing until it dies, which makes it a slow, fragile tutor in a format full of cheaper options.
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 |
Brazen Upstart is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In 60-card formats, four mana for a creature tutor that requires your opponent's cooperation to fire is nowhere near competitive — Chord of Calling and Finale of Devastation do the job faster and more reliably. In Commander, the picture improves: sacrifice outlets are common, board wipes are frequent, and combat is regular enough that Brazen Upstart's death trigger becomes a reasonable expectation. It fits best in decks that already plan to move creatures through the graveyard, where the tutor effect is a bonus rather than the primary plan.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Brazen Upstart is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as your creature-sacrifice decks can use without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb, so don't hold this expecting a spike.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.