Greenhilt Trainee
Creature — Elf Warrior
: Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Activate only if this creature's power is 4 or greater.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #29492
Greenhilt Trainee puts a +1/+1 counter on any creature you control whenever you tap four or more mana — a payoff that compounds fast in big-mana or untap-heavy Commander shells. The ceiling is real, but the setup cost keeps it out of anything that doesn't already want to dump mana into a board presence.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Greenhilt Trainee is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but realistically only Commander gives it room to breathe. Modern and Legacy move too fast for a 2/3 that needs four mana tapped to do anything beyond blocking, and Vintage simply has better things to do. In Commander, the Trainee earns its slot in decks that generate and spend large amounts of mana repeatedly — Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or Magus of the Candelabra style engines — where every activation becomes a free counter without spending a card.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Greenhilt Trainee is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or in a common/uncommon lot. Price movement is essentially flat; it's not chasing casual demand hard enough to rise, so grab it for the penny slot and don't expect that to change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.