Apothecary Geist
Creature — Spirit
Flying
When this creature enters, if you control another Spirit, you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #23979
Apothecary Geist is a four-mana 2/2 flyer that gains you 2 life when it enters — passable in a dedicated lifegain deck, irrelevant everywhere else. The stats don't justify the slot unless you're actively rewarding each life-gain trigger.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Apothecary Geist is a bulk common, and it plays like one in every competitive format — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all have lifegain payoffs that demand either more efficiency or more impact than a 2/2 for four delivers. Pauper is the one format where its ceiling rises slightly, since the card pool is shallower and a flying body with an ETB life-gain trigger can slot into dedicated Soul Warden-style shells. In Commander, Apothecary Geist fits narrowly in high-density lifegain builds — commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim who want to tick the life-gain counter as many times as possible — but even there it competes with strictly better options at the same cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Apothecary Geist is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. There's no realistic demand spike coming, so grab it from a bulk bin if you need it and don't think twice about the price.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.