Monastery Mentor
Monastery Mentor: Creature - Human Monk, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Human Monk
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 125
- Artist
- Magali Villeneuve
- Commander rank
- 1,570 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Prowess
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About Monastery Mentor
Monastery Mentor is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare white creature from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 125 in that set, with art by Magali Villeneuve. It costs {2}{W} (two generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It is restricted in Vintage. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Fate Reforged (2015) to Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.65 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess.
"Speak little. Do much."
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.65 (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 Monastery Mentor by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Restricted |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Monastery Mentor
Monastery Mentor has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| March of the Machine (MOM) #28 | Mythic | 2023 |
| March of the Machine (MOM) #347 | Mythic | 2023 |
| March of the Machine Promos (PMOM) #28p | Mythic | 2023 |
| March of the Machine Promos (PMOM) #28s | Mythic | 2023 |
| Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #21 | Mythic | 2022 |
| Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #420 | Mythic | 2022 |
| The List (PLST) #FRF-20 | Mythic | 2020 |
| Judge Gift Cards 2019 (J19) #5 | Mythic | 2019 |
| Fate Reforged (FRF) #20 | Mythic | 2015 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Monastery Mentor, newest first.
- Prowess goes on the stack on top of the spell that caused it to trigger. It will resolve before that spell.
- Prowess triggers only once for any spell, even if that spell has multiple types.
- Casting a noncreature spell will cause both prowess and Monastery Mentor's other ability to trigger. You can put these abilities on the stack in either order. Whichever ability is put on the stack last will resolve first.
- Any spell you cast that doesn't have the type creature will cause prowess to trigger. If a spell has multiple types, and one of those types is creature (such as an artifact creature), casting it won't cause prowess to trigger. Playing a land also won't cause prowess to trigger.
- Once it triggers, prowess isn't connected to the spell that caused it to trigger. If that spell is countered, prowess will still resolve.
- The spell that causes Monastery Mentor's second ability to trigger will not cause the prowess ability of the Monk token that's created to trigger.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Monastery Mentor is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.