Intrepid Stablemaster
Creature — Human Scout
Reach
: Add 
.: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast Mount or Vehicle spells.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #10117
Intrepid Stablemaster enters and immediately hands every Horse, Pegasus, Unicorn, and Nightmare creature you control a relevant keyword — vigilance, trample, or haste — turning a board of attackers into a board of threats that demand an answer. The cost of including it is near zero: a three-mana 2/2 is easy to slot, and in any deck built around Balthier and Fran, it reads as a must-answer threat rather than a support piece.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Balthier and Fran
Intrepid Stablemaster is in over 76% of Balthier and Fran decks because it's the keyword engine that makes the whole creature type matter — handing haste or trample to a board full of Horses and Pegasi the turn they arrive turns Balthier and Fran's tribal package from a value accumulation plan into a clock.
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant cares about creatures with flying attacking, and Intrepid Stablemaster's ability to grant vigilance or trample to Pegasi and Unicorns means those attackers swing without leaving the board exposed — Tadeas players include it in roughly 40% of lists as a cheap way to extend that attacking threat.
Samut, the Driving Force
Samut, the Driving Force already wants creatures attacking on every front, and Intrepid Stablemaster's haste grant accelerates that by letting newly played Horses and Pegasi contribute immediately — around 16% of Samut lists run it as a low-cost redundancy piece in the haste-enabler slot.
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 |
Intrepid Stablemaster is a Commander card almost by definition — the tribal payoff for Horse, Pegasus, Unicorn, and Nightmare is narrow enough that it won't crack competitive Modern or Pioneer, where those creature types have no meaningful presence. In Standard it's legal but unlikely to find a home until a dedicated tribal push exists for one of those types. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason: the effect is too conditional and too low-power for those formats' threat density. Commander is where Intrepid Stablemaster actually functions: in a Balthier and Fran or Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant shell, it's a three-mana piece of tribal infrastructure that earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Intrepid Stablemaster is deep bulk — buy a dozen and you've spent less than a single sleeve. It won't appreciate unless a future set mainlines one of its supported creature types into competitive relevance, so treat it as a free include for the tribal decks that want it, not a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.