Stonebound Mentor
Creature — Spirit Advisor
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, scry 1.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #19751
Stonebound Mentor turns every level-up activation into card selection, smoothing draws in a way that snowballs once you have multiple creatures leveling simultaneously. The cost is a 2/2 body for three mana with no immediate board impact — you're paying for the engine, not the creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Stonebound Mentor belongs — level-up synergies are niche enough that you want the full 99-card sandbox to build around them, and the slower pace rewards incremental card selection. In Pauper it's technically legal but level-up decks lack the density to make it consistent. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have zero competitive interest in this effect — faster, more powerful card draw exists at every point on the curve.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Stonebound Mentor is pure bulk — fill-a-box territory. There's no price floor to worry about; pick up as many copies as your level-up deck needs without a second thought.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.