Combat Medic
Creature — Human Cleric Soldier
: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #29874
Combat Medic trades a single mana and a tap to prevent 1 damage — an effect so minor it rarely changes a game outcome. At one white mana for a 1/1 with negligible upside, it doesn't make cuts in competitive or even casual Commander lists.
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 |
Combat Medic is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, 1 damage prevention on a fragile body does nothing to affect a 40-life, four-player game. Pauper is the only format where Combat Medic could conceivably see fringe play — low-to-the-ground white strategies occasionally want any body with a relevant text box, though even there the effect is too narrow. Legacy and Vintage have access to the entire card pool; Combat Medic doesn't compete.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Combat Medic is deep bulk — the kind of card that sits in a common box indefinitely. There's no demand driver that would move this price, so don't expect it to appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.