Mendicant Core, Guidelight

As of Jul 23, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Mendicant Core, Guidelight is $0.86 (DFT #213, Foil), and the most expensive is $10.07 (DFT #485, Inverted, First Place Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $1.11, up 20.6% over 7 days, up 24.7% over 30 days, up 65.7% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $18.00 (2025).

Mendicant Core, Guidelight has 5 tracked printings across 2 sets, in nonfoil, foil and first place foil finishes, including promo pack, prerelease, borderless and inverted treatments.

DFT #213 Foil

$0.86

CK $1.49 / $0.45 48%

DFT #213

$1.11

CK $1.29 / $0.52 53%

PDFT #213p Promo Pack

$1.16 +5%

CK $0.99 / $0.25 78%

DFT #365 Borderless

$1.79 +61%

CK $1.99 / $1.00 44%

PDFT #213p Promo Pack Foil

$1.89 +70%

CK $1.99

PDFT #213s Prerelease Foil

$2.23 +101%

CK $2.99 / $1.00 55%

DFT #365 Borderless Foil

$3.39 +205%

CK $6.99 / $3.50 -3%

DFT #485 Inverted First Place Foil

$10.07 +807%

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Card Kingdom currently pays $3.50 cash for DFT #365 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 50% (wide).

• Feb 7, 2025 A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
• Feb 7, 2025 A resolving copy of a permanent spell becomes a token, so the token isn’t “created.” Effects that care about a token being created won’t interact with a token that enters the battlefield from Mendicant Core’s last ability.
• Feb 7, 2025 Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
• Feb 7, 2025 If an effect needs to know what a player’s speed is and that player doesn’t have a speed, their speed is considered 0.
• Feb 7, 2025 Start your engines! isn’t a triggered ability. Increasing your speed to 1 is something that happens as a state-based action as soon as you control a permanent with the ability. Notably, this includes gaining control of a permanent with the ability that another player controls.

Mendicant Core, Guidelight has been reprinted 8 times. The Aetherdrift Promos reprint cut the price 33% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
DFT #365	2025-02-14	Rare	Borderless	$1.79	$2.05	$1.84	$1.29
PDFT #213p	2025-02-14	Rare	Promo Pack	—	$3.00	$2.71	$2.12
PDFT #213p	2025-02-14	Rare	Promo Pack	—	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00
DFT #213	2025-02-14	Rare	Standard	$1.35	$1.12	$1.07	$0.57
DFT #213	2025-02-14	Rare	Standard	$1.61	$1.25	$1.14	$0.67
PDFT #213s	2025-02-14	Rare	Prerelease	$3.93	$3.54	$2.63	$2.30
DFT #485	2025-02-14	Rare	Inverted	$17.95	$17.36	$12.97	$10.09
DFT #365	2025-02-14	Rare	Borderless	$2.66	$2.95	$5.34	$3.53

Mendicant Core, Guidelight is the #3,478 most-played card on EDHREC, up 95 places over the last 30 days.