Spirit Mascot
Creature — Spirit Ox
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #21909
Spirit Mascot enters as a 0/1 with no immediate board impact and no relevant text beyond being a creature — the floor is about as low as it gets. At one white mana, you're paying a real cost for something that does almost nothing the turn it arrives and needs external support to matter at all.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spirit Mascot is legal across every major format, but that ubiquity is table stakes, not a recommendation. In Commander, token-counting synergies and aristocrats strategies have far better one-drops that either replace themselves or enter with relevant keywords — Spirit Mascot does neither. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern, Legacy, and Pauper, a vanilla 0/1 for one has no path to a slot; the card simply can't trade with anything or advance a board state. Standard and Pioneer are the only contexts where a bulk common might sneak in on a gimmick, but no current shell needs a 0/1 that badly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Spirit Mascot sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card that ends up in a box, not a deck. Bulk commons rarely move off the floor unless a new mechanic creates a specific demand for them, and nothing about this card's text invites that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.