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Anointer Priest

Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever a creature token you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Embalm {3}{W} ({3}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Amonkhet Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#11072
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Anointer Priest card art
Anointer Priest turns every token that enters the battlefield into a life payment, and in the right deck that adds up faster than opponents expect. The combo ceiling is real — Famished Paladin goes infinite with it, and Darien, King of Kjeldor decks treat it as a core engine piece — but the floor is a 1/3 for two that does nothing alone.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Darien, King of Kjeldor

Darien, King of Kjeldor

44.6% of decks · synergy 0.43

Darien, King of Kjeldor takes damage, makes Soldiers, and Anointer Priest converts each of those Soldiers into life — which lets you take more damage, make more Soldiers, and gain more life in a self-sustaining loop that can spiral out of control in a single combat step.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Anointer Priest earns its slot almost exclusively in token-heavy white decks, where the life gain is incidental value on top of a wide board; outside of dedicated synergy shells it's too slow and too narrow to bother. Pauper is where the card sees the most competitive daylight — token strategies at common rarity are real, and two mana for a 1/3 that generates life on every token is a reasonable rate when the format's threats are similarly humble. Modern and Pioneer have enough redundancy in life-gain payoffs and token generators that Anointer Priest rarely makes the cut over more efficient options, though fringe combo lists occasionally pick it up. Legacy and Vintage simply don't want it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

9 decks
Treebeard, Gracious HostScurry OakAnointer Priest

Treebeard, Gracious HostScurry OakAnointer Priest

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't available for Anointer Priest right now, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given its narrow role and common-level power, it has historically been a bulk pickup — expect to pay very little.

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