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Reluctant Role Model

First printed in Duskmourn: House of Horror (2024)

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  • Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) #26, 2024
  • Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) #289, 2024
  • Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) #303, 2024
  • Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos (PDSK) #26p, 2024
  • Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos (PDSK) #26s, 2024

Reluctant Role Model

Creature — Human Survivor

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.

2/2

Illustrated by
Chris Rallis

Legality

Legal in
Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in
Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH

Rulings (8)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • If a creature's survival ability triggers but that creature is untapped when the ability begins to resolve, that ability won't do anything.
  • 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.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 30 Oct 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK), Premier Draft 56.8% +2.3 +2.4 18275
Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK), Sealed 58.8% +2.9 +4.0 1853
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Combos

141 combos, the most popular first:

See all 141 on Commander Spellbook