Tenured Concocter
Creature — Troll Druid
Vigilance
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
Infusion — This creature gets +2/+0 as long as you gained life this turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27742
Tenured Concocter puts a free creature token on the battlefield the moment it enters, then keeps generating value whenever you sacrifice it or another creature — that's immediate board presence stapled to a sacrifice payoff. The rate is good enough that any aristocrats or token strategy should be running it.
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 |
In Commander, Tenured Concocter slots cleanly into sacrifice-matters and aristocrats builds, where the enter-the-battlefield token and the death-trigger loop both pull weight — it's the kind of card that does two things at once without asking for a deck-building tax. In Pauper, common-legal sacrifice engines are always worth scrutinizing, and Tenured Concocter competes in a format where incremental value is currency. Across Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy, it's outclassed by faster, more explosive sacrifice payoffs, but it's not embarrassing in a budget shell. Standard is where it has the most open ground right now, since the power ceiling of legal sacrifice pieces is lower and every free token matters more.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Tenured Concocter is bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not budgeting for it. Bulk rares with genuine two-role utility tend to tick up slightly when a matching Commander precon or Standard staple pushes the archetype, but at this price the floor is already the floor.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.