Price$0.15 – $0.60
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Creature — Human Soldier
LegalCard DrawRank #618
Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay 
. If you do, draw a card.
2/2
Why is this card good?
Mentor of the Meek is white's best repeatable card-draw engine for go-wide creature decks, addressing the color's notorious card-advantage problem.
The key is that most token generators produce small creatures — 1/1 Soldiers, 1/1 Spirits, 0/1 Servos, Saproling 1/1s — all of which trigger this perfectly. Each only costs you , so with a few mana you're converting board presence into a refilled hand.
Wants it:
- Token decks (Adeline, Emmara, Jetmir, Anim Pakal)
- Aristocrats shells that churn out small bodies (Teysa, Yoshimaru, Athreos)
- White weenie/Soldiers builds that flood the board
The -per-card tax is the catch: it competes with your other plays, and in explosive token turns you often can't afford to draw off every trigger. But topping out at one card per body is still excellent in this color.
Skip it in decks built around big creatures, lifegain, or +1/+1 counters that quickly outgrow the power-2 threshold — you'll trigger it too rarely to justify the slot.
, so with a few mana you're converting board presence into a refilled hand.
Wants it:
- Token decks (Adeline, Emmara, Jetmir, Anim Pakal)
- Aristocrats shells that churn out small bodies (Teysa, Yoshimaru, Athreos)
- White weenie/Soldiers builds that flood the board
The -per-card tax is the catch: it competes with your other plays, and in explosive token turns you often can't afford to draw off every trigger. But topping out at one card per body is still excellent in this color.
Skip it in decks built around big creatures, lifegain, or +1/+1 counters that quickly outgrow the power-2 threshold — you'll trigger it too rarely to justify the slot.Related cards
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Printings (19)
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Played by these commanders
Mondrak, Glory Dominus100% of 1
Saskia the Unyielding100% of 1
Sam, Loyal Attendant100% of 1
Millicent, Restless Revenant100% of 1
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit100% of 1
Nahiri, the Lithomancer100% of 1
Kasla, the Broken Halo100% of 1
Emmara, Soul of the Accord100% of 1
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard100% of 1
Combos (3)
- Nadir Kraken + Mentor of the Meek + Ashnod's Altar
→ Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Words of Wilding + Ashnod's Altar + Mentor of the Meek
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Words of Wilding + Mana Echoes + Mentor of the Meek
→ Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB
Rulings (3)
- 2025-01-24
Mentor of the Meek’s ability checks the power of the other creature only as it enters. If that creature’s power is 2 or less, the ability will trigger. Once the ability triggers, raising that creature’s power above 2 won’t affect that ability. Similarly, reducing the creature’s power to 2 or less after it enters won’t cause the ability to trigger.
- 2025-01-24
If a creature enters with +1/+1 counters or a continuous effect such as that of Wedding Festivity will apply to the creature on the battlefield, those effects apply when checking to see if Mentor of the Meek’s ability will trigger.
- 2025-01-24
While resolving the triggered ability of Mentor of the Meek, you can’t pay
multiple times to draw more than one card.