Mendicant Core, Guidelight
Aetherdrift
#485
Rare
First place foil
EN
Released · Illustrated by Zezhou Chen
- Box toppers
What is this worth
First place foil
$10
High confidence
- Retail Cardmarket $7 as of 2026-10-16
- Retail Mana Pool $8.32 as of 2026-10-15
- Retail TCGplayer $9.89 as of 2026-10-16
- Retail Card Kingdom $9.99 as of 2026-10-15
- Buylist Card Kingdom $5.00 as of 2026-10-15
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Price history
Foil
7 d
+0.3%
30 d
-0.3%
Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 16 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.
Oracle text
Mendicant Core's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
Max speed — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay . If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
Max speed — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay . If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)
Legalities
Legal Not legal
Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Premodern
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Legal
Commander
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Pauper Commander
Not legal
PreDH
Not legal
Brawl
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
tlr
Legal
competitivebrawl
Legal
Identifiers and data
- Scryfall id
- ec057f26-8d14-463b-84ce-cce82b95b08e
- Oracle id
- b20d74a4-0e08-4779-972a-499f1a2be15a
- Illustration id
- e54f5805-c80b-4087-af33-d42e94c85988
- Card back id
- 0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
- Multiverse ids
- 689996
- MTGO id
- 137117
- TCGplayer id
- 614340
- Cardmarket id
- 807338
- MTGJSON uuid
- 20e030f3-dfc8-5099-99a1-b25538b5217b
- Set code
- DFT
- Collector number
- 485
- Layout
- normal
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- yellow
- Security stamp
- oval
- Promo types
- firstplacefoil, boxtopper
- Frame effects
- legendary, inverted
- Booster
- No
- Games
- paper, mtgo
- Story spotlight
- No
- Reserved list
- No
- EDHREC rank
- 3269
- Penny rank
- 4760
