Alive // Well
Sorcery // Sorcery
Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #20730
Alive // Well is a split card that makes a 3/3 Elephant token on one end and gains life equal to the number of creatures you control on the other — fused together for five mana, you get both. The token half is passable in token-spam shells, but the life gain half is too conditional to pull weight in a 100-card singleton format, and five mana for the fused version is overcosted by a full turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Alive // Well competes against a deep pool of token generators and life gain spells, and it loses that fight — five mana fused gets you a single 3/3 and some life, where Rhys the Redeemed or Trostani, Selesnya's Voice shells want density and repetition, not a one-shot. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer are all too fast for a five-mana split card with no immediate board impact beyond a vanilla token. Oathbreaker is the one context where the fused mode is slightly more interesting, since lower life totals make the Well half matter more, but even there the card is on the fringe.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Alive // Well is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box long before you'd pay for it. That price reflects its ceiling: the card sees negligible constructed play and no meaningful demand, so bulk is where it stays.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.