Fan Favorite
Creature — Human Rogue
Assist (Another player can pay up to 
of this spell's cost.)
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Any player may activate this ability.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battlebond
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27661
Fan Favorite enters as a 2/2 for four mana and immediately taps a creature an opponent controls, giving you a clean tempo swing on the turn it lands. That rate is below the bar for Commander — four mana should do more than threaten a 2/2 body and a one-time tap.
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 |
Fan Favorite is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only home where it's worth considering is Pauper, where common-card restrictions make tempo bodies more scarce. In Commander, four mana for a 2/2 and a tap effect is simply outclassed by nearly every alternative at that cost — the format's power ceiling is too high for this rate. Legacy and Vintage won't touch it; those formats demand answers that end games, not buy a single turn.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
Fan Favorite sits at $0.05, firmly in bulk territory. At that price point there's no financial downside to picking one up, but the card's ceiling is so low that even bulk status won't change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.