Fortifying Draught
Instant
You gain 2 life. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #17666
Fortifying Draught sets your life total to your highest life total from this turn, which in any life-gain shell translates to a massive, immediate toughness boost across your board. Three mana for a potentially game-ending pump is the kind of rate that earns a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Fortifying Draught lives — life-gain commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn routinely push totals into the hundreds, and a single cast can swing combat entirely. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, the card has no practical home: three mana for a conditional buff can't compete with the pace of those formats, and life totals rarely spike high enough to make the pump meaningful. Pioneer offers a slight opening in dedicated lifegain strategies, but even there the sorcery speed is a real liability. Stick to Commander.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Fortifying Draught is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar box, not a display case. Bulk rares with narrow applications don't appreciate, so treat it as a cheap role-player for the right deck and nothing more.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.