Healing Grace
Instant
Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn by a source of your choice. You gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #22284
Healing Grace redirects damage to a player, gains you that much life, and costs a single white mana at instant speed — it does three things on one card, but none of them well enough to matter in most contexts. Outside of dedicated life-gain synergy or damage-redirection tricks, it doesn't make the cut.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Healing Grace is fringe at best — the only shells that want it are Boros or mono-white life-gain commanders that can convert each point of life into a trigger, and even there it competes with more efficient options. In Pauper it's legal but sees no meaningful play; the format moves too fast for a one-shot fog-adjacent effect to pull weight. Across Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage, Healing Grace is essentially invisible — the damage-redirection angle isn't potent enough to build around at those power levels. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: niche role-player at absolute best.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Healing Grace sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb — it's not a staple, not a combo piece with broad application, and supply is plentiful. Pick it up if a specific build demands it, but don't expect the price to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.