Reluctant Role Model
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if this creature is tapped, put a flying, lifelink, or +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, put those counters on up to one target creature.
Combos with Reluctant Role Model
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Athreos, Shroud-Veiled Viscera Seer Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Basking Broodscale Arwen, Weaver of Hope Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Ashnod's Altar Scurry Oak Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Evolution Witness Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Evolution Witness Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Basking Broodscale Good-Fortune Unicorn Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-09-20
If Reluctant Role Model dies at the same time as one or more other creatures with counters on them, its last ability will trigger for each of those creatures.
- 2024-09-20
Reluctant Role Model's last ability doesn't cause you to move counters from the creature that died onto the target creature. Rather, you put the same number of each kind of counter the creature that died had when it died onto the target creature. Other effects that interact with putting counters onto that creature will interact with this effect accordingly.
- 2024-09-20
If the creature that died had -1/-1 counters on it when it died, Reluctant Role Model's last ability will include those as well. This may result in the target creature also dying.
- 2024-09-20
Survival abilities (and other abilities that trigger at the beginning of your second main phase) will trigger at the beginning of the second main phase you take in a turn. They won't trigger during your third, fourth, or other additional main phases in a single turn, if effects somehow cause you to have more than two main phases.
- 2024-09-20
If a creature's survival ability triggers but the creature leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, use its tapped or untapped status as it last existed on the battlefield to determine whether or not the ability will do anything.
- 2024-09-20
If a creature with a survival ability isn't tapped when your second main phase begins, the ability won't trigger at all. You won't be able to tap it during your second main phase in time to have that ability trigger.
- 2024-09-20
If a creature's survival ability triggers but that creature is untapped when the ability begins to resolve, that ability won't do anything.
- 2024-09-20
In some unusual cases, you may end up putting the appropriate counters on more than one permanent. For example, if you control The Ozolith when Reluctant Role Model dies, you'll put the appropriate number of each kind of counter onto both The Ozolith and the target creature.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Reluctant Role Model, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duskana, the Rage Mother | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Naya 1 deck
Reluctant Role Model price history
The Duskmourn: House of Horror #26 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.39 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.39 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.39 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.39 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.38 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.38 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.38 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.39 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.39 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.39 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.39 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.39 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.38 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.38 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.38 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.38 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.38 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.38 | $0.38 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.38 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.38 | $0.38 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.39 | $0.38 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.38 | $0.38 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.39 | $0.39 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Reluctant Role Model
5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.37
- Foil
- $0.39
Promo
Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Normal
- $3.97
- Foil
- $5.05
Promo
Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Foil
- $1.14
- Normal
- $0.42
- Foil
- $0.44
Showcase
- Normal
- $0.36
- Foil
- $0.56
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Reluctant Role Model. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
