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Traveling Minister

Creature — Human Cleric

{T}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. You gain 1 life. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Innistrad: Double Feature
Price
$0.07
EDHREC rank
#20411
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Traveling Minister enters and immediately distributes a +1/+1 counter to each creature you control, turning any board state into a combat advantage for a single white mana. The payoff scales hard with token strategies and synergizes with counter-doubling effects — and Agatha's Soul Cauldron can exile it to replicate that enter trigger on any creature with enough activated abilities.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Traveling Minister is a Commander card through and through — the enter trigger shines when you have a wide board to spread counters across, and white go-wide commanders make it a reliable include. In Pauper it's technically legal but competes in a format where one-mana bodies need to do more than distribute a single counter at common. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no interest in it; Pioneer is similarly unimpressed. Stick to Commander and Oathbreaker, where the multiplayer board state makes each counter count.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.07 bulk tier

At $0.07, Traveling Minister is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that earns its slot in the right shell. Bulk rares don't appreciate, but this one doesn't need to; the value is on the battlefield, not in the binder.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.