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Celestine, the Living Saint

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior

Flying, lifelink
Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Warhammer 40,000 Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2778
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Celestine, the Living Saint card art
Celestine, the Living Saint puts a massive lifelink body on the table that keeps coming back — every time you gain life, she gets a vitality counter, and she resurrects creatures from your graveyard when she accumulates enough. The cost is that she asks you to build around the life-gain trigger deliberately, which means fringe cards like Coretapper see play almost exclusively because Bre of Clan Stoutarm decks are hunting exactly this kind of engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Bre of Clan Stoutarm

Bre of Clan Stoutarm

42.5% of decks · synergy 0.41

Bre of Clan Stoutarm cares about gaining life in bulk, and Celestine, the Living Saint feeds that engine while also returning fallen creatures — she's one of the highest-inclusion picks in Bre decks because she does double duty as both a payoff and a recursive threat.

02
Aerith Gainsborough

Aerith Gainsborough

42.5% of decks · synergy 0.40

Aerith Gainsborough runs a life-gain-matters gameplan where Celestine, the Living Saint's counter accumulation turns incidental healing into board presence and recursion, making her a natural fit for the deck's core loop.

03
Aerith, Last Ancient

Aerith, Last Ancient

40.6% of decks · synergy 0.39

Aerith, Last Ancient similarly leans on life total manipulation, and Celestine, the Living Saint slots in as a resilient threat that rewards every point of life gained over a long game.

04
Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Betor, Ancestor's Voice

42.3% of decks · synergy 0.38

Betor, Ancestor's Voice builds around healing and creature recursion themes where Celestine, the Living Saint functions as both a payoff for gaining life and a source of mid-game value by returning key creatures from the graveyard.

05
Shanna, Purifying Blade

Shanna, Purifying Blade

32.4% of decks · synergy 0.32

Shanna, Purifying Blade converts life gain into card draw and combat stats, and Celestine, the Living Saint extends that theme by turning the same triggers into a recursive creature engine that keeps the board stocked.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Celestine, the Living Saint is a Commander card through and through — her power is slow, cumulative, and payoff-dependent in exactly the way that works over a 40-life multiplayer game but would never get there in a competitive 20-life format. She's legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees no real play there; at six mana with no immediate board impact, she can't compete with the raw efficiency of those formats. In Commander she earns her slot in dedicated life-gain shells, where the critical mass of triggers makes her vitality counter engine genuinely threatening rather than decorative.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Celestine, the Living Saint isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures before buying. Given her niche role in life-gain Commander builds, she tends to hold a modest price — strong enough in her lane to be desirable, narrow enough that she rarely spikes.

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