
Card 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 {1}. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)
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Mana cost
{W}{U}
Power / toughness
*/3
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Card 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 {1}. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
About Mendicant Core, Guidelight
This page covers the borderless printing of Mendicant Core, Guidelight (365), a White and Blue Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot from Aetherdrift (DFT). It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 7 more formats.
We track no other printing of 365 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Aetherdrift is a main expansion, released February 2025. Mendicant Core, Guidelight has 2 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
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 {1}. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)
Card details
- Card number
- 365
- Set
- Aetherdrift (DFT)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 14 February 2025
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Borderless
- Type line
- Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot
- Colour
- White / Blue
- Colour identity
- White / Blue
- Mana cost
- {W}{U}
- Power / toughness
- */3
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Mendicant Core, Guidelight
Other printings of Mendicant Core, Guidelight in Aetherdrift
The same card in other art and frames from this set — priced in the United States.
Mendicant Core, Guidelight in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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