Healing Leaves
Instant
Choose one —
• Target player gains 3 life.
• Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #26449
Healing Leaves gains you 3 life for one green mana at instant speed — functional, clean, and almost never worth a card slot. Life gain without attached upside is too narrow for Commander, and Healing Leaves offers none.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Healing Leaves is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Commander, 3 life is a rounding error against 40 starting totals and four opponents — run it only if your commander or a permanent cares specifically about life gain triggers. Pauper is the one format where cheap life stabilization has some merit in aggressive metas, but even there Healing Leaves competes poorly against options that replace themselves. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in this effect at any price.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Healing Leaves is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price will stay flat indefinitely; there's no scarcity or demand driver to move it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.