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Clearwater Goblet

Artifact

Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain life equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$1.20
EDHREC rank
#17099
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Clearwater Goblet card art
Clearwater Goblet gains you life equal to the number of artifacts you control at the start of each upkeep — in a dedicated artifact deck that number climbs fast, making it a repeating life buffer that compounds with every new piece you deploy. The catch is the five-mana entry fee and zero immediate impact, so it earns its slot in slow, engine-heavy builds but drags in anything that needs the board to move quickly; pair it with Maralen of the Mornsong if you want to weaponize your life total as a resource while she bleeds everyone out.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Clearwater Goblet is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive eternal formats will never touch a five-mana do-nothing artifact when faster, cheaper life gain exists. Commander is the only realistic home — the slower pace, larger life totals, and artifact-synergy commanders give it room to pay off. In Oathbreaker it can function in artifact-centric builds but the smaller deck size and faster games make the five-mana investment harder to justify than in a 100-card engine deck.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.20 cheap tier

At $1.20, Clearwater Goblet sits in the budget tier — cheap enough to slot in without deliberation if the deck wants it. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, so pick it up whenever convenient rather than treating it as any kind of priority acquisition.

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