Divine Congregation
Sorcery
You gain 2 life for each creature target player controls.
Suspend 5—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #22445
Divine Congregation gains you life equal to the number of creatures you control — in token-heavy Commander decks that number routinely hits 10 to 20, making this a massive life swing for three mana. It's a bulk rare for a reason: lifegain without a payoff attached is rarely enough, so it belongs only in decks that actively convert life totals into advantage.
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, Divine Congregation is a fringe inclusion — token decks running Aetherflux Reservoir or similar payoffs can spike 30-plus life off a single cast, but most lists would rather run effects that gain life and do something else. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; the format moves too fast for a three-mana do-nothing. Legacy and Vintage don't touch it. Oathbreaker is the one spot where a go-wide planeswalker shell could occasionally justify it, but even there Divine Congregation is competing against staples that pull more weight.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Divine Congregation is deep bulk — pick it up from a bulk bin rather than paying shipping for it alone. It won't appreciate; supply is abundant and demand is narrow enough that the price ceiling is effectively the floor it's already at.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.