Harsh Mentor
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Duskmourn: House of Horror CommanderDSC · #165
- Card type
- Creature — Human Cleric
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.31 € · 0.35 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Whenever an opponent activates an ability of an artifact, creature, or land on the battlefield, if it isn't a mana ability, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Shreya Shetty
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-09-27
Flavour text
"Fight through it."
Rulings
Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities (such as equip) are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate. Notably, exerting a creature isn't an activated ability.
Harsh Mentor's ability doesn't trigger when an opponent activates an ability of a card in hand (such as cycling) or a card in a graveyard (such as embalm), even if that causes a card to be put onto the battlefield.
Harsh Mentor's ability resolves before the ability that caused it to trigger.
