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Mendicant Core, Guidelight DFT 0213 · rare

Mendicant Core, Guidelight · {W}{U} · Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot · 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.) · Power / toughness: */3

Mendicant Core, Guidelight · {W}{U} · Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot · 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.) · Power / toughness: */3

Price
from $0.565 printings
Win rate
56.1% GIH 12,184 instances · Premier Draft
Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 6,830 wins in 12,184 card-in-hand instances.

11,745 distinct games · 4,238 distinct drafts · games recorded Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025.

17Lands file dated Mar 23, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

56.1%when drawn (GIH)

+1.2 pp vs 54.9% average · 12,184 instances

Premier Draft · Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025 · average from 857,667 games

#97 of 255 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 2.9 on average (22,651 packs).

24 of 43 multicolor cards · 8 of 14 multicolor rare cards.

Taken at pick3.16,682 picks
Makes the deck67.0%6,682 picks with known usage
When played53.6%23,231.2 matchesBenched 54.0%
9,697.8 matches
When drawn56.1%12,184 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 56.3% · 4,844 instances
● Drawn later 55.9% · 7,340 instances

In hand 56.1% · 12,184 instances
Unseen in deck 51.0% · 15,349 instances
+5.1 percentage points when drawn

Compared with multicolor cards

Win rate when drawn56.1%12,184 instances24 of 43
Opening hand56.3%4,844 instances21 of 43
Drawn later55.9%7,340 instances29 of 43
In the deck53.3%27,751 instances35 of 43
Without seeing it51.0%15,349 instances36 of 43
Improvement when drawn+5.1 pp12,184 instances / 15,349 instances17 of 43
When benched54.0%9,697.8 matches33 of 43
Makes the deck67.0%6,682 picks with known usage16 of 43
Pick (last seen)2.922,651 packs12 of 43
Taken at3.16,682 picks13 of 43

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Artifact Value WU57.1%4,657 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.1% · 12,184 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Guidelight Optimizer13,177 games with both in the deckVoyager Quickwelder12,888 games with both in the deckRide's End11,460 games with both in the deck
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 62% of 255 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025

Collect

5 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

DFT 0213 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · MTGO Redemption$0.56
FoilPlay Booster$0.93

How to get it

A fixed card in MTGO Redemption. It is not a booster pull, so no chance is claimed.

Wizards · Collecting Aetherdrift ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Zezhou Chen, DFT 213 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Artifact Value cards → · Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Aetherdrift · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗