Hopeful Initiate
Innistrad: Crimson Vow 350 • rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Collector number
- 350
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- white mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Market price
- $0.53
What it does
Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
2 generic mana white mana, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Hopeful Initiate was released in 2021 as part of the Innistrad: Crimson Vow set for Magic: The Gathering. The card belongs to the broader narrative of the Innistrad plane, a gothic horror-inspired world that served as the setting for two interconnected expansions focused on vampire weddings and eternal night. This specific card represents the theme of human resistance against the encroaching darkness, embodying the set's mechanical focus on training and growth through the +1/+1 counter synergy found in white-aligned decks.
The artwork was provided by illustrator Jason A. Engle, who captured the character as a humble, determined warrior standing against the supernatural threats of the plane. The design emphasizes a low-cost, repeatable utility effect that allows players to remove counters from creatures to destroy enchantments. Within the competitive landscape of the game, it was well-received as an efficient, versatile inclusion for Limited formats and aggressive constructed strategies due to its ability to provide both offensive pressure and graveyard-agnostic artifact or enchantment removal.
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