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Resplendent Mentor

Creature — Kithkin Cleric

White creatures you control have "{T}: You gain 1 life."

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Shadowmoor
Price
$4.02
EDHREC rank
#14873
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Resplendent Mentor card art
Resplendent Mentor turns every point of life gain into an untap trigger, and paired with Famished Paladin, that loop goes infinite on the spot. Four mana for a 2/4 is a fair rate for what is functionally a combo enabler that also stabilizes your life total.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Resplendent Mentor lives — life gain synergies are dense in the format, and the card slots cleanly into Oloro, Trostani, Ayli, or any soul sisters shell that already wants untap abuse. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has no competitive home; the combo lines it enables are slower and more fragile than what those formats demand. Modern has more life gain infrastructure than older formats, but Resplendent Mentor is still too slow and narrow to see play outside of a fringe combo brew.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.02 cheap tier

At $4.02, Resplendent Mentor sits at the low end of niche combo pieces — cheap enough to include speculatively, but the price reflects real demand from Commander players who know exactly what the card does. It holds value as long as Famished Paladin and similar untap combos remain popular in white life gain builds.

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