Cateran Persuader
Creature — Human Mercenary
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: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 1 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #28015
Cateran Persuader is a two-mana 2/1 that tutors any Mercenary from your library to the battlefield — powerful text stapled to a body that dies to a stiff breeze. It earns a slot only in dedicated Mercenary tribal, where the tutor chain justifies the fragility.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cateran Persuader is a niche tribal piece — Mercenary support is thin, and outside that shell it does nothing. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but Mercenary tribal has never been a competitive archetype in either format, so it sees no play there. Pauper is its most plausible competitive home given the commons-only card pool, but the Mercenary tribe lacks the density to make a viable deck even there. The honest read: Cateran Persuader is a Commander card for exactly one kind of deck.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Cateran Persuader sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. It's unlikely to appreciate given how narrow the Mercenary tribal space is, but it's essentially free to pick up if you're building that deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.