Cabaretti Initiate
Creature — Raccoon Citizen
: This creature gains double strike until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #28327
Cabaretti Initiate enters tapped and produces one mana of any color in your commander's color identity — a free fixing land stapled to a 1/1 body, at the cost of tempo. The creature type rarely matters enough to justify it over a basic, but in go-wide token or convoke shells where the body pulls weight, it earns its slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cabaretti Initiate competes in the crowded bracket of one-drop mana dorks and land-light token strategies — it's most at home in Naya or five-color go-wide decks where both the body and the fixing matter. In Pauper, it's a legitimate role-player in convoke builds where flooding the board with cheap creatures is the whole plan. Modern and Pioneer have better options at every turn, so it doesn't see meaningful play there. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a tapped 1/1.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Cabaretti Initiate is deep bulk — buy a playset without thinking about it. Price is stable at floor and has nowhere meaningful to go given the card's narrow competitive footprint.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.