Seasoned Buttoneer
Creature — Vedalken Employee
When this creature enters, open an Attraction. (Put the top card of your Attraction deck onto the battlefield.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #17404
Seasoned Buttoneer puts a 1/1 with evasion on the board and a free Aura into play attached to it — all for one mana. The restrictions are real, but in the right shell this is one of the most efficient threat-plus-enchantment packages available at that cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | banned |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | banned |
| pauper | banned |
| oathbreaker | banned |
Seasoned Buttoneer is banned in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — a list that tells you the card does something broken when the restrictions collapse. The four restrictions (one per opponent, once per turn, limited Aura pool, creature must be yours) keep it honest enough for Commander's singleton, multiplayer environment, where you're unlikely to chain it or loop it at the speed those formats fear. In a 100-card, four-player game, Seasoned Buttoneer is an efficient one-drop that rewards dedicated Aura or go-wide builds rather than a combo enabler.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Myra the Magnificent
Myra the Magnificent cares about casting spells with different mana values and generating value from cheap interactions, and Seasoned Buttoneer's one-mana footprint with an attached Aura trigger fits squarely into that engine — you're getting two distinct effects stapled to a single cast.
Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor
Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor rewards assembling multiple pieces around a single creature, and Seasoned Buttoneer delivers an Aura at no extra mana cost, which means Wyll's roll-trigger can fire on a board state that built itself for one mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Seasoned Buttoneer is deep bulk — you're not buying this for speculation, you're finding it in a common box or padding a TCGPlayer order. Bulk rares with banned status across multiple formats sometimes tick up if a Commander staple status solidifies, but at this price the question is just whether it earns a deck slot, not whether it holds value.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Myra the Magnificent
- Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.