Venerated Teacher
Creature — Human Wizard
When this creature enters, put two level counters on each creature you control with level up.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #24897
Venerated Teacher enters and puts two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control with a level up ability — in the right deck, that's a board-wide leap of two levels for three mana. It does nothing outside dedicated level-up shells, but inside one it's a game-warping tempo swing.
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 |
Venerated Teacher is a Commander card in practice — the level-up archetype only reaches critical mass in the 99, where you can assemble enough levelers to make the enter-the-battlefield trigger punishing. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; the format is too fast and the level-up package too fragile to compete. Pauper is the one other format worth a glance, since several strong levelers are commons, but the archetype still lacks the redundancy to be consistent at that level. Treat Venerated Teacher as a one- or two-of in any Commander deck built around level-up creatures.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Venerated Teacher is deep bulk — a pure throw-in cost for any level-up Commander build. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a mechanic sees a major reprint wave or new commander support, so buy it for the effect, not the speculation.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.