Gather Courage
Instant
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #20128
Gather Courage pumps a creature +2/+2 until end of turn and costs zero mana — you just need two creatures already tapped or untapped on your side to convoke it. It's a combat trick that wins races for free, but outside of creature-dense aggro shells it's a dead card in hand.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gather Courage finds its best home in Pauper, where zero-mana tricks are genuinely powerful and creature-heavy aggressive decks can reliably convoke it on turn two or three. In Modern and Legacy it's a fringe option — faster removal and more efficient tricks crowd it out, though token-swarm strategies can fire it without slowing down. Commander is the wrong format for it: convoke requires board presence you don't always have, the effect doesn't scale to multiplayer, and a +2/+2 bump rarely changes the math when opponents are at 40 life.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Gather Courage is pure bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the card. That price is stable simply because demand is too low to move it; it won't creep up unless a new Pauper archetype specifically needs it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.