Eager Cadet
Seventh Edition 14 • common
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Collector number
- 14
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Greg Hildebrandt & Tim Hildebrandt
- Market price
- $0.06
What it does
"Training? Seeing my crops burnt to cinders was all the 'training' I needed."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Eager Cadet was printed as a common white creature card in the Seventh Edition of Magic: The Gathering, released in April 2001. As the first core set of the new millennium, Seventh Edition was designed to revitalize the game by featuring new art for nearly every card, including this humble 1/1 soldier. The card serves as a quintessential example of a 'vanilla creature'—a card with no special abilities, meant primarily to teach new players the foundational mechanics of combat and turn structure.
The artwork for this version was illustrated by Alan Pollack, who provided a clean, classic fantasy aesthetic that fit the core set's accessible tone. While the card is often cited by players for its lack of strategic complexity, it holds a nostalgic place in the history of the game as a staple of the 'starter' experience. It was intended to be a reliable, low-cost utility piece that newcomers could easily grasp as they learned the nuances of building a deck.
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