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Answered Prayers

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. If this enchantment isn't a creature, it becomes a 3/3 Angel creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Modern Horizons
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#15964
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Answered Prayers card art
Answered Prayers turns every life-gain trigger into a 4/4 Angel token with flying — the payoff is immediate and scales hard with the right shell. The cost is three mana and finding that shell, since Famished Paladin and friends are the only reason to run it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Answered Prayers actually lives — life-gain synergy commanders can fire it multiple times per turn cycle, and a 4/4 flier per trigger converts a life-gain engine into a board presence fast. In Pauper it's legal but outclassed by lower-to-the-ground life-gain payoffs that don't ask for three mana up front. Legacy and Vintage have the tools to build broken life-gain loops, but those formats have faster, more redundant win conditions that don't need Answered Prayers specifically. It's a Commander card first, a casual-format card second, and essentially irrelevant everywhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

16 decks
Basking BroodscaleAnswered PrayersCleric Class

Basking BroodscaleAnswered PrayersCleric Class

Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite colorless mana

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Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Answered Prayers sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without hesitation if the deck wants it. Bulk mythics with narrow combo applications rarely climb unless a new commander creates a breakout moment, so don't expect movement, but the floor is already the floor.

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