Tidecaller Mentor BLB 0236 · uncommon
Tidecaller Mentor · {1}{U}{B} · Creature — Rat Wizard · Menace Threshold — When this creature enters, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. · Power / toughness: 3/3 · "The same tides that bring us knowledge can sweep us away."
- Price
- from $0.221 printing
- Win rate
- 56.1% GIH 22,637 instances · Premier Draft
Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickDefend and trade while milling or discarding enough cards for threshold, then win through evasive threats and card advantage.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 12,691 wins in 22,637 card-in-hand instances.
19,680 distinct games · 6,200 distinct drafts · games recorded Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024.
17Lands file dated Sep 6, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Defend and trade while milling or discarding enough cards for threshold, then win through evasive threats and card advantage. Mindwhisker’s repeated surveil helps reach seven graveyard cards so Tidecaller’s enter trigger can bounce a nonland permanent.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Defend and trade while milling or discarding enough cards for threshold, then win through evasive threats and card advantage. Look for support such as Shoreline Looter and Mindwhisker.
- What to take next
- Mindwhisker’s repeated surveil helps reach seven graveyard cards so Tidecaller’s enter trigger can bounce a nonland permanent.
- Wrong pick
- Threshold checks the current graveyard. Foraging or recurring too many cards can switch off your rewards.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Defend and trade while milling or discarding enough cards for threshold, then win through evasive threats and card advantage. Mindwhisker’s repeated surveil helps reach seven graveyard cards so Tidecaller’s enter trigger can bounce a nonland permanent.
Draft data
+1.5 pp vs 54.6% average · 22,637 instances
Premier Draft · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · average from 931,230 games
#115 of 258 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.9 on average (122,417 packs).
22 of 39 multicolor cards · 7 of 10 multicolor uncommon cards.
56,572.1 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 51.9% · 8,322 instances
● Drawn later 58.5% · 14,315 instances
In hand 56.1% · 22,637 instances
Unseen in deck 51.0% · 27,091 instances
+5.0 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
Ratfolk UB56.9%13,572 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.1% · 22,637 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Bellowing Crier+5.8 pp12,828 games with both in the deck · 3,758 both drawnShoreline Looter+4.9 pp15,907 games with both in the deck · 4,764 both drawnFeed the Cycle+4.5 pp9,223 games with both in the deck · 2,413 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 56% of 258 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · Value Booster | $0.22 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · collector-sample · Play Booster · Value Booster | $0.23 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 25 packs (4.00%) · 38.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a collector-sample · Modeled · About 1 in 100 packs (1.00%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 313 packs (0.32%) · 10.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 28 packs (3.63%) · 73.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a value · Modeled · About 1 in 1,039 packs (0.10%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a value · Modeled · About 1 in 46 packs (2.17%) · 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 | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Bloomburrow ↗ · 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
- Irina Nordsol, BLB 236 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Ratfolk cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Bloomburrow · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗