Conclave Evangelist
Creature — Elephant Cleric
Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $1.44
- EDHREC rank
- #13429
Conclave Evangelist enters and immediately populates, putting a token copy of your best creature onto the battlefield before its controller has spent a single extra mana. The three-mana body is modest, but in any deck running Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, that free token triggers life gain and snowballs the board state from turn three onward.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice gains life on every token entering the battlefield, so Conclave Evangelist's populate trigger is both a board doubler and a life-gain engine in the same ETB — exactly what Trostani decks are built to abuse.
Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds
Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds cares about copies and tokens of powerful creatures, and Conclave Evangelist's populate effect delivers one the moment it lands, setting up Ghired's own copy triggers a turn earlier than expected.
Ghired, Conclave Exile
Conclave Evangelist gives Ghired, Conclave Exile a cheap, reliable way to populate a Rhino token or whatever the biggest creature on board is, compounding the attack-step token generation that makes the deck tick.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Conclave Evangelist is a Commander card through and through — populate is a mechanic that scales with the size of your existing board, and a 60-card format rarely gives you the time or the token density to make it matter. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but wholly irrelevant against the threats those formats present. Commander is where the card earns its slot: multiplayer games run long enough that a three-mana populate on a body becomes a genuine tempo play, especially in token-doubling or life-gain shells where the copied creature is already worth several times the card's cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.44 cheap tier
At $1.44, Conclave Evangelist sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to include without deliberation in any deck that can use it. Populate sees enough Commander play in Selesnya and Naya token builds that demand stays steady, so this price is unlikely to fall further.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.