Hopeful Initiate
- Mana cost
- {W}
- Type
- Creature — Human Warlock
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 2
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow #20 (rare)
- Price
- $0.37 USD
Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
{2}{W}, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Hopeful Initiate has 8 printings, first in Innistrad: Crimson Vow (2021). EDHREC ranks it #5,435 among Commander cards. It appears most in Breena, the Demagogue decks (2,957 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Hopeful Initiate most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Breena, the Demagogue: 2,957 decks
- Katilda, Dawnhart Prime: 1,009 decks
- Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan: 1,002 decks
- Torens, Fist of the Angels: 891 decks
- Raffine, Scheming Seer: 854 decks
- Denzilore Fatehold: 827 decks
- Kyler, Sigardian Emissary: 719 decks
- Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza: 669 decks
Often played with Hopeful Initiate
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A creature's training ability triggers only when both that creature and a creature with greater power are declared as attackers. Increasing a creature's power after attackers are declared won't cause a training ability to trigger.
- : Once a creature's training ability has triggered, destroying the other attacking creature or reducing its power won't stop the creature with training from getting a +1/+1 counter.