Intrepid Tenderfoot
Creature — Insect Citizen
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #22386
Intrepid Tenderfoot trades a life payment for a scry, letting white-based lifegain decks convert surplus life into card selection on demand. The rate is unspectacular — one mana and one life per scry — but in a deck built to gain life in bulk, it becomes a repeatable filter engine that costs almost nothing to enable.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Intrepid Tenderfoot is a role-player, not a staple — it belongs in dedicated lifegain builds where activating it every turn is trivial, and it's a cut in anything else. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's too slow and too conditional: paying mana and life to scry 1 doesn't compete with cards that replace themselves outright. Pauper is its most interesting non-Commander home, where white lifegain synergies are both affordable and viable, though even there it's on the margins of playability. Standard is the format most likely to make Intrepid Tenderfoot relevant in the near term, since lifegain archetypes rotate into focus periodically and the bar for utility creatures is lower.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Intrepid Tenderfoot is deep bulk — the price reflects that it sees narrow play and is easy to reprint. Pick it up freely; it's not a card you'll regret buying at this price, though it won't appreciate either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.