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Raucous Entertainer

Creature — Plant Bard

{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control that entered this turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#17181
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Raucous Entertainer card art
Raucous Entertainer enters with +1/+1 counters spread across your board and replaces itself with a card draw trigger — meaningful on-board presence stapled to card advantage at a low cost. The shell it fits best is Kirri, Talented Sprout, where every counter counts double, and it pairs cleanly with Crystalline Crawler to generate mana off those counters the same turn it lands.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Kirri, Talented Sprout

Kirri, Talented Sprout

20.6% of decks · synergy 0.20

Kirri, Talented Sprout triggers off each counter placed individually, so Raucous Entertainer entering and distributing counters across multiple creatures fires Kirri's draw engine several times in one shot — it's one of the most efficient single cards you can run in that list.

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

Raucous Entertainer is a Commander card through and through — the counter distribution and incidental draw scale with wide boards and synergy commanders in ways that a 60-card singleton format simply can't replicate consistently. In Standard, Pioneer, and Modern it's too slow and too low-impact to compete; a 3/3 for four that spreads counters and draws a card doesn't threaten a board state in any of those formats. Legacy and Vintage have access to it in theory, but nothing there wants what it's offering. Stick to Commander, where its ceiling is high and its floor is still a reasonable body.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Raucous Entertainer is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box or a trade binder, not paying for it. Bulk rares with narrow synergy homes rarely climb unless a breakout commander pushes demand, so treat this as a free inclusion rather than a spec.

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