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Fountain of Youth

Artifact

{2}, {T}: You gain 1 life.

CMC
0
Mana cost
{0}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Pro Tour Collector Set
Price
$0.45
EDHREC rank
#11439
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Fountain of Youth card art
Fountain of Youth gains you 1 life for two mana — a rate so inefficient that the card's only real home is decks that care about the activation itself, not the outcome. Cavalier of Dawn can recur it for artifact value, and Fblthp, Lost on the Range turns it into a repeatable library manipulation engine, which is the only context where running it is defensible.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Fblthp, Lost on the Range

Fblthp, Lost on the Range

58.2% of decks · synergy 0.57

Fblthp, Lost on the Range puts Fountain of Youth on top of your library, letting Fblthp repeatedly cast it off the top and trigger its draw-and-surveil loop — the Fountain isn't here to gain life, it's here to be the cheapest repeatable artifact Fblthp can keep recasting.

02
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

16.1% of decks · synergy 0.16

Meria, Scholar of Antiquity taps untapped nontoken artifacts to add mana or draw cards, and Fountain of Youth is a zero-equity artifact that exists solely to be tapped for Meria's engine without demanding any other investment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Fountain of Youth is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in any of those formats has no interest in it — one life per activation is a losing exchange against any clock. In Commander it finds niche play exclusively in artifact-matters or artifact-recursion shells where the card type matters more than the text box. Pauper is the one format where cheap, repeatable activations occasionally matter, but even there, Fountain of Youth doesn't pull enough weight to see real play.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.45 bulk tier

At $0.45, Fountain of Youth is bulk by any measure. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new commander creates a breakout engine around it — buy it if you need it, don't hold it expecting anything else.

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