Honor's Reward
Instant
You gain 4 life. Bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fate Reforged
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #25715
Honor's Reward gains you 4 life and puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control — all at instant speed for three mana. It's a niche role-player that earns its slot only in decks that actively care about both life totals and +1/+1 counters; everywhere else, it's too low-impact to justify.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Honor's Reward is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive constructed formats won't touch it — three mana for 4 life and a counter spread is far below rate when dedicated payoffs exist. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there the card needs a deck that crosses the streams: something like a lifegain-matters build that also runs a +1/+1 counter subtheme, or an Atraxa, Praetors' Voice style proliferate shell where the counter distribution scales with board size. Outside that narrow intersection, Honor's Reward is outcompeted by cards that do one of its two things more efficiently.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Honor's Reward sits firmly in bulk territory — the price reflects its narrow application and low demand. Don't expect movement; it will stay at this floor unless a future commander creates a dedicated lifegain-plus-counters archetype that pushes copies out of bulk bins.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.