Clergy of the Holy Nimbus
Creature — Human Cleric
If this creature would be destroyed, regenerate it.
: This creature can't be regenerated this turn. Only your opponents may activate this ability.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $0.55
- EDHREC rank
- #26868
Clergy of the Holy Nimbus is a one-mana 2/1 that forces opponents to pay 1 or let it regenerate every time they try to kill it — the tax stacks fast and the body sticks around. The catch is that opponents control the payment, so a wealthy opponent can let it die when it matters most.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Clergy of the Holy Nimbus is a fringe inclusion: the regeneration tax is genuinely annoying in one-on-one trades but loses teeth in a four-player game where opponents can coordinate or simply wait until resources are tight. Legacy and Vintage are the formats where it historically earned attention — one-mana creatures with built-in resilience matter when tempo is everything, and forcing an opponent to sink mana into a removal spell that might not land is a real cost. Pauper is where Clergy of the Holy Nimbus has the most plausible current home, since the common card pool rewards sticky white creatures and every mana the opponent spends on the tax is a mana not spent elsewhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.55 bulk tier
At $0.55, Clergy of the Holy Nimbus sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to throw into any white deck that wants a resilient one-drop without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, but it won't trend lower either; it's a stable bulk rare with a small, loyal audience.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.