Thunderscape Apprentice
Creature — Human Wizard
, 
: Target player loses 1 life.
, : Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #30559
Thunderscape Apprentice is a one-mana 1/1 that taps to give a creature -1/-1 until end of turn or regenerate a creature for one black mana — both abilities underwhelming at the cost of your attack or block step. It belongs in very narrow reanimator or sacrifice shells that specifically need cheap redundancy, and even there it's usually the last card to make the cut.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Thunderscape Apprentice is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Pauper, where one-mana creatures need to pull serious weight, the tap abilities are too slow and too marginal to compete with the format's cheap threats and interaction. In Commander, the -1/-1 ping is irrelevant at a table of 40-life opponents and the regeneration requires black mana on tap at a moment you'd rather be advancing your board. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a 1/1 with sorcery-speed-adjacent activated abilities. Thunderscape Apprentice is a bulk rare in all practical contexts.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Thunderscape Apprentice is deep bulk — a price that accurately reflects its near-zero demand across every format it's legal in. Don't expect it to move; cards in this tier hold their floor only because vendors stop bothering to sell below a dime.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.