Heart of Light
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #25039
Heart of Light turns any creature into a permanent blocker that neither deals nor receives combat damage — full protection from combat, full vulnerability to everything else. It's a niche aura that earns its slot in specific combo and stax shells, and has no business in a generic creature deck.
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 |
In Commander, Heart of Light is a combo enabler first — slap it on an opponent's best attacker to neutralize it, or use it on your own creature to set up damage-prevention interactions and infinite-combat loops. Pauper is where Heart of Light sees the most constructed relevance, since the effect is genuinely unique at common rarity and the format has fewer ways to remove enchantments cleanly. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested — the effect is too slow and too narrow to compete at those power levels. Modern has better options for both protection and stax that don't cost you a card slot on an aura.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Heart of Light is pure bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not any scarcity. That price is stable by default; niche combo pieces at common rarity don't spike unless a specific deck breaks them into a format staple, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.