Inspiring Leader
Inspiring Leader: Legendary Enchantment - Background, Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Legendary Enchantment - Background
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
- Released
- 2022-06-10
- Collector number
- 28
- Artist
- Stephen Stark
- Commander rank
- 2,793 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Inspiring Leader
Inspiring Leader is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white legendary enchantment from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB), a draft-focused set released in June 2022. It is collector number 28 in that set, with art by Stephen Stark. It costs {2}{W} (two generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.50 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Commander creatures you own have "Creature tokens you control get +2/+2."
Your family needed a farmer, so you tilled. Your town needed a fighter, so you trained. When your people needed a leader, you knew what you had to do.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.50 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Inspiring Leader by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Inspiring Leader
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #475 | Uncommon | 2022 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Inspiring Leader, newest first.
- If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
- You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
- Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional {2} the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).
- Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
Similar cards
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