Healer's Flock
Creature — Bird
Flying, lifelink
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #16649
Healer's Flock enters with a number of flying counters equal to your life total above 25, which in a dedicated lifegain deck can mean a 10/10 flyer on turn four. The cost is that it's a blank 1/1 in games where you haven't pulled ahead on life — context-dependent in the worst way.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Healer's Flock belongs — starting life totals of 40 mean it enters with up to 15 counters out of the box before you've gained a single point, and dedicated lifegain commanders push that ceiling higher fast. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats don't have the life cushion or the synergy infrastructure to make a conditional-stats creature competitive. Oathbreaker shares the 20-life starting total of other 1v1 formats, which cuts the entry counters nearly in half and makes Healer's Flock far less reliable as a threat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Healer's Flock is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable because the card has a narrow home and no competitive demand pushing it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.