Effortless Master
Creature — Orc Monk
Vigilance
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it if you've cast two or more spells this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #21619
Effortless Master enters the battlefield and immediately makes all your creatures unblockable until end of turn — that's a one-card alpha strike stapled to a body. The cost is that it only fires once, on entry, so you're paying for a sorcery-speed effect with a creature attached rather than a repeatable engine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Effortless Master does its best work, specifically in decks that can blink or bounce it repeatedly to retrigger the unblockable effect on demand. In 60-card competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, it's too slow and too fragile — a three-mana creature that gives one swing of unblockability doesn't survive contact with those formats' interaction suites. Pioneer and Standard players could find fringe uses in tempo or evasion-matters shells, but Effortless Master competes against cheaper, more consistent options at that slot. Oathbreaker sits closest to Commander in feel, and the same blink-and-repeat logic applies there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Effortless Master is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not tracking it on a buylist. Bulk rares at this price floor rarely recover unless a format breaks them wide open, and nothing about this card's rate suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.