Dawnhart Mentor
Creature — Human Warlock
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Coven — 
: Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn. Activate only if you control three or more creatures with different powers.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #21643
Dawnhart Mentor puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control whenever you cast a creature spell with a coven trigger — that's a passive anthem that snowballs fast in go-wide token builds. The cost is real: you need three creatures with different powers on board to unlock it, which means it underperforms in the early game and in decks that lack board density.
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 |
Commander is where Dawnhart Mentor lives. Coven rewards creature-dense strategies, and the 100-card format gives you the redundancy to reliably hit three different power values — token generators, utility creatures, and a finisher cover that spread naturally. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional; aggro and midrange shells can't afford a three-creature threshold just to get a counter trigger. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient payoffs and Dawnhart Mentor never sees play there. Stick to Commander.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Dawnhart Mentor is deep bulk — you're grabbing this out of a dollar bin or a bulk order, not paying meaningful money for it. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow tribal or mechanic conditions rarely climb, so don't expect this to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.