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Healer of the Pride

Creature — Cat Cleric

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 2 life.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#9220
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Healer of the Pride card art
Healer of the Pride turns every creature entering the battlefield into a life buffer — in token-heavy or go-wide shells, that's 2 life per trigger, and it adds up faster than opponents expect. Arahbo, the First Fang runs it in nearly two-thirds of builds; Darien, King of Kjeldor pairs it with deliberate self-damage to generate both soldiers and life simultaneously. Four mana for a 2/3 body is the cost, and it's a fair one.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Arahbo, the First Fang

Arahbo, the First Fang

64.3% of decks · synergy 0.62

Arahbo, the First Fang floods the board with Cats every combat step, and Healer of the Pride converts each of those triggers into a life gain event — fueling any payoffs that care about your life total climbing while keeping you out of reach of chip damage.

02
Darien, King of Kjeldor

Darien, King of Kjeldor

39.6% of decks · synergy 0.37

Darien, King of Kjeldor is designed to take damage on purpose, and Healer of the Pride closes the loop: soldiers enter, life comes back, and the engine sustains itself without draining your total down to a dangerous number.

03

Ajani, Nacatl Pariah

36.2% of decks · synergy 0.36

Ajani, Nacatl Pariah cares about Cats and life gain synergies, and Healer of the Pride fits both axes — it rewards the constant creature flow Ajani generates while padding your life total against the aggro decks that target Cat-tribal players.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Healer of the Pride is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable lifegain trigger only becomes meaningful when you're generating a steady stream of creature ETBs over a long game, which is exactly what go-wide and token strategies in that format do. In Legacy and Vintage, four mana for a 2/3 with a passive lifegain trigger doesn't clear the bar; those formats end games before the effect accumulates to anything relevant. Modern is technically legal but practically the same story — the effect is too slow and the body too soft to justify the slot against faster, more impactful options. Commander is where Healer of the Pride earns its keep, and that's the only format worth building around it.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Healer of the Pride sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely spike unless a breakout commander pushes demand, so expect the price to stay in this range.

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