Trusted Forcemage
Creature — Human Shaman
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as this creature is paired with another creature, each of those creatures gets +1/+1.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #29752
Trusted Forcemage puts a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control when it enters — a board-wide pump on a 3/2 body for three mana. It's a solid role-player in counter-synergy decks and a bulk pickup that pulls its weight without asking much in return.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Trusted Forcemage is a budget piece for counter-synergy decks — it does real work in Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or Hamza, Guardian of Arashin shells where distributing counters on entry has compounding value, but it rarely makes the cut in higher-powered lists that can afford more efficient alternatives. In Pauper, the common card pool keeps competition tight and three-mana enters-the-battlefield effects need to be immediately impactful — Trusted Forcemage is fringe playable at best, likely outclassed in aggressive decks that want bodies sooner. Legacy and Vintage have no meaningful interest here; Trusted Forcemage is simply too slow and too low-impact for those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Trusted Forcemage is deep bulk — pick it up out of a commons box and don't think twice about the cost. There's no meaningful price floor to breach here, and it won't appreciate, but it's also never a financial regret to slot into a budget build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.