Hopeful Initiate MTG Innistrad Remastered INR 027 Artifact Control Counters

Hopeful Initiate

Creature — Human Warlock from Innistrad Remastered.

Quantity: 1 card • Regular finish • INR #027

Grows through training and can spend two +1/+1 counters from your creatures, plus mana, to destroy a target artifact or enchantment.

Supports Counters strategies with an early creature that turns accumulated counters into answers to opposing artifacts and enchantments.

Card Highlights

• Casting cost: one white mana
• Base power and toughness: 1/2
• Training adds a +1/+1 counter when it attacks alongside a creature with greater power
• Destruction ability costs two generic and one white mana plus removing two +1/+1 counters
• Counters can come from one creature or be split across two creatures you control
• Rare standard-frame printing illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

Vault Notes & Play Impact

Attack alongside a stronger creature to build counters, or use counters supplied by other cards to activate its removal ability sooner. The ability does not require tapping, so Hopeful Initiate can use it the turn it enters if you have the necessary mana and counters. Removing the counters is part of the activation cost, so they are spent even if the ability is countered.