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Ambrosia Whiteheart

Legendary Creature — Bird

Flash
When Ambrosia Whiteheart enters, you may return another permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, Ambrosia Whiteheart gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$0.19
EDHREC rank
#6179
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Ambrosia Whiteheart card art
Ambrosia Whiteheart puts a recurring life-gain trigger on the board at a cost low enough that recursive loops become trivial — Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle gets it back for free, and Choco, Seeker of Paradise turns every trigger into extra mileage. The cost is real: without a dedicated engine, it's a slow card that does nothing the turn it enters.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Choco, Seeker of Paradise

Choco, Seeker of Paradise

74.2% of decks · synergy 0.68

Choco, Seeker of Paradise is the natural home — Ambrosia Whiteheart's life-gain triggers feed directly into Choco's payoffs, and the 74% inclusion rate across Choco decks reflects how central the synergy is to that strategy.

02
God-Eternal Oketra

God-Eternal Oketra

23.3% of decks · synergy 0.22

God-Eternal Oketra rewards casting creatures with 4/4 Zombie tokens, and Ambrosia Whiteheart is cheap enough to recast repeatedly — each bounce or recursive loop generates another token while keeping the life-gain engine running.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Ambrosia Whiteheart actually does work: the format's longer games and life-gain payoff commanders make the recurring trigger matter in a way 60-card formats simply don't support. In Standard, Pioneer, and Modern, the card is legal but competes with faster, more impactful one-drops and rarely earns a slot outside dedicated life-gain synergy builds. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal on paper, but the power ceiling in those formats is so far above what Ambrosia Whiteheart offers that it won't see play there. Stick to Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.19 bulk tier

At $0.19, Ambrosia Whiteheart is bulk — easy to pick up as a playset without thinking twice. Bulk rares with narrow synergy applications rarely climb unless a new commander breaks the engine wide open, so treat it as a cheap slot-filler rather than a speculative hold.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.