Lat-Nam Adept
Creature — Human Wizard
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #20332
Lat-Nam Adept enters and lets you exchange a card in hand for the top card of your library — card selection, not card advantage, stapled to a 2/2 body for three mana. That rate is too slow and too replaceable to justify a slot in most lists.
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 |
Lat-Nam Adept is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 3-mana 2/2 that cantrips sideways rather than drawing a fresh card is below rate — you need tempo and card advantage, and Lat-Nam Adept provides neither cleanly. Pauper is the one format where cheap, incremental selection on a body has some history of relevance, but even there the effect has to synergize with something specific, like self-mill or spell-count payoffs, to earn its slot. Everywhere else, it's outclassed by dedicated draw spells or creatures that do more on entry.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Lat-Nam Adept sits firmly in bulk territory — the price reflects the demand. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow effects don't recover value unless a breakout archetype adopts them, and there's no current shell pushing this card toward that.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.