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Dwarven Priest

Creature — Dwarf Cleric

When this creature enters, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Core Set 2019
Price
$0.06
EDHREC rank
#20800
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Dwarven Priest card art
Dwarven Priest gains you 1 life per tapped Dwarf you control at the cost of tapping itself — a marginal payoff that only matters if you're running a critical mass of Dwarves and have a specific reason to care about life totals. Outside of a dedicated Dwarf tribal shell with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker copying it for redundant triggers, this is a bench player at best.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Dwarven Priest is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in essentially none of them. In Commander, Dwarf tribal is a real archetype and that's where Dwarven Priest has the most argument for a slot — a deck that goes wide with Dwarves can squeeze a few life points per turn cycle, which occasionally matters for commander damage math. Everywhere else, the effect is too slow and too marginal to compete; Pauper in particular has access to better life-gain engines that don't demand tribal synergy.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.06 bulk tier

At $0.06, Dwarven Priest is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the effect. It holds that price floor indefinitely; there's no scenario where demand spikes this.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.