D'Avenant Healer
Creature — Human Cleric Archer
: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #20236
D'Avenant Healer taps to deal 1 damage to any attacking or blocking creature and gain 1 life — a narrow, low-ceiling effect stapled to a 1/3 body for three mana. It sees play almost exclusively in dedicated archer-tribal lists; outside that context, it's outclassed by nearly every other three-drop.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, D'Avenant Healer is a fringe inclusion that only earns its seat in archer-tribal builds where the creature type itself provides payoffs. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are all legal formats, but no competitive shell there would run a 1/3 with a tap ability this marginal — it simply doesn't clear the power bar. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where budget creature-type synergies matter most, and even there D'Avenant Healer struggles to justify a slot over more efficient commons.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, D'Avenant Healer is deep bulk — the price reflects the demand accurately. It won't appreciate unless a future set prints a major archer-tribal payoff, and even then the ceiling is low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.