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Faith Healer

Creature — Human Cleric

Sacrifice an enchantment: You gain life equal to the sacrificed enchantment's mana value.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Urza's Saga
Price
$3.37
EDHREC rank
#17022
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Faith Healer turns any enchantment into a life payment, and in the right shell that translates directly into mana, card draw, or a combo kill. Yenna, Redtooth Regent decks copy enchantments and cash them out repeatedly; Mazzy, Truesword Paladin decks use it as a sacrifice outlet that keeps auras off the graveyard and triggering recursion.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Mazzy, Truesword Paladin

Mazzy, Truesword Paladin

17.7% of decks · synergy 0.18

Mazzy, Truesword Paladin wants enchantments to die attached to creatures so they return to hand, and Faith Healer provides a repeatable sacrifice outlet that triggers that loop without needing a combat step or opponent interaction.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Faith Healer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander — the 100-card singleton format gives it the density of enchantments and the long games it needs to pay off. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically available but completely absent from competitive lists; those formats move too fast for a one-drop that requires a board state to do anything. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case worth noting: if your oathbreaker is an enchantress-adjacent planeswalker, Faith Healer slots in as a clean sacrifice outlet at no real deck-building cost.

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Price Context

Current price

$3.37 cheap tier

At $3.37, Faith Healer sits at the high end of the cheap tier for a card that sees play in fewer than 18% of its most synergistic commanders' decks. It's a niche piece — if you're building the specific enchantment-sacrifice engine that wants it, pay the $3.37; otherwise it's easy to leave on the shelf.

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