Golden-Tail Disciple
Enchantment Creature — Fox Monk
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #18616
Golden-Tail Disciple turns any creature into a Samurai with a single training counter, which matters the moment your deck cares about creature subtypes or counter synergies. The cost is two mana for a 1/1 with no immediate board impact — you're paying an entry fee for a tribal toolbox piece that only earns its slot in dedicated Samurai builds.
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 |
Commander is where Golden-Tail Disciple does its only real work — Samurai tribal decks use it to grant the subtype to non-Samurai creatures that happen to have strong abilities, effectively widening the pool of creatures that trigger your lord effects. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; no competitive Pauper shell wants a 1/1 tap-to-enable creature. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all ignore it entirely — the effect is too slow and too marginal for any format where power matters.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Golden-Tail Disciple is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff bin rather than buy. That price is stable because demand is narrow: only Samurai tribal Commander players have any reason to hunt it down.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.