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Plumecreed Mentor

Creature — Bird Scout

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with flying enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control without flying.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Bloomburrow
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#14011
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Plumecreed Mentor card art
Plumecreed Mentor puts a +1/+1 counter on every creature you control whenever one of your creatures with counters attacks — that's a passive board-wide pump that compounds fast. The cost is real: at four mana in a creature-centric build, it competes with payoffs, and it does nothing the turn it lands, so Toby, Beastie Befriender and Choco, Seeker of Paradise are the shells that justify it fastest.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Choco, Seeker of Paradise

Choco, Seeker of Paradise

17.9% of decks · synergy 0.17

Choco, Seeker of Paradise already rewards you for attacking with countered creatures, so Plumecreed Mentor turns every Choco trigger into a cascading pump effect — swing with one creature that has a counter, watch the whole board grow.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Plumecreed Mentor belongs in any +1/+1 counter deck that wants to win through combat; it's a multiplier rather than an enabler, so it needs a board state to matter. Outside Commander, it's legal across Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but competitive constructed formats move too fast for a four-mana do-nothing-now creature to justify a slot — the effect is strong over multiple turns, and those formats rarely give you multiple turns to set up. Pauper is the one format where it can't play, which is the one format where the slower counter-synergy game might have actually suited it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Plumecreed MentorToby, Beastie BefrienderBasking Broodscale

Plumecreed MentorToby, Beastie BefrienderBasking Broodscale

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature

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Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Plumecreed Mentor is firmly bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk rares with niche-but-real synergies tend to stay in this range unless a specific deck breaks out around them, so don't expect movement.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.