Daru Healer
Creature — Human Cleric
: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Morph 
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #30304
Daru Healer gains you life when a Soldier enters the battlefield — useful only if you're running a Soldier-tribal shell that generates volume, and even then the payoff is negligible without a life-total payoff attached. The Yedora, Grave Gardener combo aside, this is a fringe role-player that rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated synergy builds.
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 |
Daru Healer sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage — formats too fast and too powerful to care about a 1/3 that gains one life per Soldier — and it's absent from Modern, Pioneer, and Standard entirely. Pauper is the most plausible home, where the common card pool can support Soldier synergies and slower life-gain strategies, but even there it competes with more efficient options. In Commander, Daru Healer is almost exclusively a combo piece: it appears in Yedora, Grave Gardener lines where repeated land-creature triggers generate Soldier tokens, turning the life gain into a functional loop component rather than incidental cushion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Yedora, Grave GardenerPhyrexian AltarDaru Healer
Infinite death triggers; Infinite green mana; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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MissyPhyrexian AltarDaru Healer
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Daru Healer is deep bulk — the price of a card with near-zero competitive demand and a narrow niche in a single Commander combo. It won't appreciate unless that combo sees a surge in popularity, so grab a copy if you need one and don't think twice about it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.