Proud Mentor
Creature — Human Warrior
Partner with Impetuous Protege (When this creature enters, target player may put Impetuous Protege into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
, 
: Tap target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Battlebond Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27503
Proud Mentor lets you tap a creature you control to give another target creature training for the turn — a narrow, reactive effect that costs a full creature's worth of board presence to activate. It's a fringe role-player at best, only worth slotting if your deck is specifically built around training triggers or needs redundancy on that mechanic.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Proud Mentor is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in Legacy and Vintage has no interest in a two-mana creature with a tap ability this incremental. In Commander, Proud Mentor finds its only realistic home in decks that actively abuse training as a keyword — think go-wide creature strategies where stacking +1/+1 counters matters — but even there it competes with cards that grant training passively or at no additional cost. Oathbreaker follows the same logic: narrow enough that only a dedicated training-synergy shell justifies it.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Proud Mentor isn't available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given the card's narrow use case and limited competitive demand, it almost certainly sits at bulk rare or below — pick it up if the deck calls for it, but don't expect scarcity to ever be an issue.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.