Hermitic Herbalist TLA 0226 · uncommon
Hermitic Herbalist · {G}{U} · Creature — Human Druid Ally · {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Lesson spells. · Power / toughness: 2/3 · "Wounded Earth Kingdom troops still come by now and again—brave boys—and thanks to my remedies they always leave in better shape than when they arrive."
- Price
- from $0.261 printing
- Win rate
- 57.6% GIH 20,045 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickRamp and Lessons
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 11,541 wins in 20,045 card-in-hand instances.
17,850 distinct games · 6,125 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025.
17Lands file dated Jan 10, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Make extra mana, keep yourself alive, and spend that mana on Lessons and large threats. Herbalist’s two-mana ability works only on Lessons; it cannot pay for an ordinary creature.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Ramp, answers and something worth ramping into.
- What to take next
- Make extra mana, keep yourself alive, and spend that mana on Lessons and large threats. Herbalist’s two-mana ability works only on Lessons; it cannot pay for an ordinary creature.
- Wrong pick
- Do not count restricted Lesson mana as unrestricted mana. Cheap defense matters more than a third expensive payoff.
- Mana & splash
- A two-color support card is usually a reason to play both colors, not a reason to stretch a third-color mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Do not count restricted Lesson mana as unrestricted mana. Cheap defense matters more than a third expensive payoff.
Draft data
+1.6 pp vs 56.0% average · 20,045 instances
Premier Draft · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · average from 562,924 games
#92 of 289 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.7 on average (53,652 packs).
22 of 55 multicolor cards · 8 of 20 multicolor uncommon cards.
19,383.3 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 60.0% · 8,010 instances
● Drawn later 55.9% · 12,035 instances
In hand 57.6% · 20,045 instances
Unseen in deck 53.5% · 25,330 instances
+4.0 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
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
Ramp and Lessons UG60.4% ◌498 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (57.6% · 20,045 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Saber-Tooth Moose-Lion+5.3 pp7,699 games with both in the deck · 1,793 both drawnOrigin of Metalbending+4.6 pp10,056 games with both in the deck · 2,324 both drawnHow 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 68% of 289 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · Collector Booster | $0.26 |
| Foil | Play Booster · Collector Booster | $0.28 |
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 299 packs (0.33%) · 9.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.29%) · 63.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 37 packs (2.73%) · 28.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 96.4% per position | Main set uncommon |
| Play Booster | Wildcard | 74.1% | Main set uncommon |
| Play Booster | Foil card | 36.7% | Main set uncommon |
| Collector Booster | Foil uncommons | 100% per position | Main set uncommon |
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender ↗ · Oct 28, 2025
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Kozato, TLA 226 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Ramp and Lessons cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Jubilee Finnegan · Avatar Prerelease Guide · Nov 7, 2025
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender · Oct 28, 2025
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗