Trusted Advisor
Creature — Human Advisor
Your maximum hand size is increased by two.
At the beginning of your upkeep, return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #19949
Trusted Advisor bounces itself to your hand at the end of any turn you didn't cast a spell, making it a zero-net-cost engine piece for decks that want to replay enters-the-battlefield effects or need a body that never permanently commits to the board. The cost is real: any turn you cast something else, the loop breaks, so it lives almost exclusively in dedicated shells alongside cards like Wormfang Manta rather than as a general-purpose value creature.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Trusted Advisor actually does work, specifically in bounce-loop and flicker-adjacent builds that can trigger its self-return condition reliably by passing turns without casting spells. Legacy and Vintage are legal but have no interest — a conditional self-bouncer at one mana has no competitive role in formats that demand immediate board impact. Modern is similarly legal and similarly unplayed; the effect simply doesn't map onto anything those formats want. Trusted Advisor is a Commander-only card in practice, full stop.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Trusted Advisor is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. Its niche is real but narrow enough that demand stays permanently low, so there's no reason to expect the price to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.