Dega Sanctuary
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a black or red permanent, you gain 2 life. If you control a black permanent and a red permanent, you gain 4 life instead.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #26157
Dega Sanctuary gains you 3 life at your upkeep whenever you control a Plains, Swamp, or Mountain — conditional, slow, and doing nothing the turn it enters. Life gain that requires a board state and costs a card slot is a bad deal in almost every deck that can run it.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dega Sanctuary is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, 3 life per turn is negligible when starting totals are 40 and threats scale accordingly — you need life gain that either comes in large bursts or generates immediate advantage, and Dega Sanctuary does neither. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a do-nothing enchantment that doesn't interact with the board. Oathbreaker is the one format where a 20-life starting total makes incremental life gain marginally more relevant, but even there the slot cost is hard to justify.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Dega Sanctuary is deep bulk — the price reflects exactly what the market thinks of it. Don't expect movement; this is a card that sits in bulk bins permanently.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.