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Mendicant Core, Guidelight
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Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot
WU
· WU
· #115 (14,929 decks)
Mendicant Core's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control. Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) Max speed — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)
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34 lands · total $75.76 budget: $100
W 18 U 20 C 7
Composition 16 Basics 9 Other Nonbasic 1 Artifact Bridges 1 Battle Lands 1 Bond Lands 1 Check Lands 1 Odyssey Filter Lands 1 Pain Lands 1 Shock Lands 1 Slow Lands 1 Verge Lands

Top Lands · By Real-Deck Inclusion

$75.76 18

Basics

$0.96 16

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Lands real expensive-variant Mendicant Core, Guidelight decks run that your current build doesn't include yet. Ranked by how often they appear in actual decks.

About This Manabase

Mendicant Core, Guidelight is a WU commander with a WU color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier and ranks every pick by how often real EDHREC decks actually run it — so shocks and fetches show up where the budget allows, dropping to scry lands, gain lands, and tap-duals as the cap tightens.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier mirrors what budget-deck players actually run — mostly basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) shifts to the “default” EDHREC variant with shocks, fast lands, and a couple of fetches when the budget allows; Unlimited uses the expensive-variant data — originals, full fetch suites, and premium duals appear when in identity. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.