Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
Legendary Creature — Kor Cleric
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch
- Price
- $0.63
- EDHREC rank
- #5416
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim is a two-mana 2/3 deathtouch that converts life into removal, then converts a 40-life threshold into mass exile — two distinct modes on one body for
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant is a Cleric tribal engine, and Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim is a Cleric who sacrifices other Clerics to generate value — the tribal overlap is near-perfect, and Ayli's life threshold becomes trivial once Orah is recurring life-gain Clerics from the graveyard each combat.
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness drains life from opponents whenever a creature dies under his effect, which means Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim's sacrifice outlet turns every creature death into life padding — Ayli feeds Ardbert's engine while Ardbert feeds Ayli's threshold.
Ratadrabik of Urborg
Ratadrabik of Urborg creates token copies of legendary creatures that die, so sacrificing a legend to Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim both fuels her removal and puts a token back into play — a clean sacrifice loop that never runs dry.
Amalia Benavides Aguirre
Amalia Benavides Aguirre triggers off lifegain and wants a sacrifice outlet to reset her explore loop before it wipes the board; Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim provides exactly that outlet while gaining life in the process, tightening the combo window.
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim drains opponents whenever a creature enters or dies, so Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim's sacrifice outlet becomes a repeatable drain trigger — every activation is both removal and life loss for the table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim does her best work — 40 starting life closes the gap to her exile threshold quickly, and the 99-card singleton format is full of life-gain Clerics that trigger her naturally. In Legacy and Vintage, she's legal but doesn't compete with what those formats are doing at two mana; deathtouch and a tap-to-sacrifice aren't impactful enough to justify the slot. Modern and Pioneer are similarly indifferent — there's no life-gain shell that needs her badly enough to cut a dedicated slot, and her power ceiling in those formats is just a medium-value creature. Oathbreaker gives her a niche if she's the spellcaster supporting a life-gain signature spell, but it's a narrow use case.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ayli, Eternal PilgrimDaru SpiritualistWarrior en-Kor
Infinite lifegain
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Price Context
Current price
$0.63 bulk tier
At $0.63, Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim is firmly bulk — cheap enough to slot into any Orzhov or Cleric list without a second thought. That price has stayed low because she sees almost no competitive constructed play, but for Commander the value-per-dollar is exceptional given how much work she does as a sacrifice outlet and win condition in the right shell.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.