Maestros Initiate
Creature — Human Citizen
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #29558
Maestros Initiate puts a +1/+1 counter on a creature and mills two cards the turn it enters — relevant work for one mana in any deck that wants both effects. The cost is that it's a 1/1 with no evasion, so the body itself will rarely matter past turn one.
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 |
In Commander, Maestros Initiate is a niche role-player: it belongs in self-mill, graveyard recursion, or +1/+1 counter synergy decks where one mana for two triggers is worth a deck slot. Outside Commander, Maestros Initiate is legal in Pauper, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but it has no competitive footprint in any of them — the effect is too low-impact for formats where threats and answers operate at a higher baseline. Pauper is the only 60-card format where a card like this could theoretically find a home, but graveyard-synergy commons with more immediate payoff crowd it out.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Maestros Initiate is deep bulk — you'll find it in bulk bins or pick up a playset for pocket change. Bulk commons with narrow applications don't appreciate, so buy exactly as many as you need and don't stock up.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.