MagicTheGathering.fyi

Faith of the Devoted

Enchantment

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Historic Anthology 4
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#8002
Buy on TCGplayer
Faith of the Devoted card art
Faith of the Devoted turns every discard into a drain-one-gain-one, and in decks that discard compulsively, that adds up to lethal quickly. The three-mana enchantment asks almost nothing — pair it with Skirge Familiar or Anje Falkenrath cycling through Madness cards and opponents lose life in chunks while you gain a comfortable buffer.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Anje Falkenrath

Anje Falkenrath

39.5% of decks · synergy 0.38

Anje Falkenrath's entire game plan is cycling through Madness cards at machine-gun speed, and Faith of the Devoted converts every one of those discards into a life-drain trigger — a table can fall to zero without a single creature dealing combat damage.

02
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

38.4% of decks · synergy 0.38

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer discards nonstop to cast spells for free, so Faith of the Devoted slots in as a passive win condition that punishes opponents just for the deck doing its normal thing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Faith of the Devoted is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card. In competitive 60-card formats the three-mana enchantment is too slow and too conditional — discard-matters decks in Modern and Legacy have faster, more redundant payoffs. Commander is where it belongs: multiplayer life totals give the drain effect room to accumulate, enchantment-based win conditions are harder to disrupt than creatures, and the format's discard-heavy commanders create the volume of triggers needed to make each point of life loss meaningful. In Oathbreaker it's worth considering in any Planeswalker that enables discard, but the 20-life format shrinks the window considerably.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Price data for Faith of the Devoted isn't currently available in the system — check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live number. Given its Commander-specific role and relatively narrow home, it has historically sat in the bulk-to-low-dollar range and is worth picking up whenever you're already placing an order.

Explore

Sources

Mentioned

← All cards

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