Compassionate Healer
Creature — Human Cleric Ally
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it on the bottom.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #13304
Compassionate Healer puts a life-gain trigger on the board for two mana, making it a consistent engine piece in decks that care about gaining life each turn. The cost is that it does nothing else — no evasion, no secondary ability — so it earns its slot only when your commander, like Katara, the Fearless, converts that repeated life gain into real advantage.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Katara, the Fearless
Katara, the Fearless rewards life gain with card draw and power bonuses, and Compassionate Healer guarantees a trigger every turn without needing combat or other setup — it's one of the most reliable fuel sources the deck can run.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Compassionate Healer is a role-player, not a generalist — it belongs in dedicated life-gain builds and nowhere else. The one-life-per-turn ceiling is too low to matter in a 40-life format unless your commander is directly converting each trigger into cards, tokens, or damage. In 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Pauper, the same problem is more acute: the trigger rate and life total are both too small to close games or survive aggro pressure. Across every format it's legal in, Compassionate Healer is niche but cheap enough that the right shell — Katara, the Fearless being the clearest example — makes it a completely correct inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Compassionate Healer is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for under fifty cents. Bulk commons with narrow applications don't appreciate, so buy exactly as many as you need and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.