Mtenda Herder
Creature — Human Scout
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #28308
Mtenda Herder is a 1/1 for one white mana with banding — a mechanic so marginal in Commander that the card brings almost no board impact at any point in the game. It's bulk for a reason.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mtenda Herder is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper it's the most honest test: even in an aggressive white deck, a vanilla 1/1 with banding can't compete for the one-drop slot. Legacy and Vintage ignore it entirely. Commander is the worst fit of all — a 1/1 with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no death trigger, and a combat mechanic that requires multiple creatures to function is irrelevant at a 100-card, four-player table. Mtenda Herder has no format where it earns a slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Mtenda Herder sits firmly in bulk territory, and nothing about its playability argues for that changing. It holds value only as a penny-bin curiosity — buy it if you need it for a banding tribal oddity, not because it's going anywhere.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.