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Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life

Creature — Cat Cleric // Sorcery

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#21395
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Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life card art
Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life is a life-gain engine that scales hard when you can flicker it repeatedly — pair it with Displacer Kitten and a free or cheap spell and the life totals get out of hand fast. The cost is a two-mana front face that does nothing without support, so this is a combo piece first and a standalone card never.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life is almost exclusively a combo piece — the flicker loops it enables with Displacer Kitten and similar effects can generate infinite life or serve as a win condition in dedicated life-gain builds. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of those formats; two mana for a conditional life-gain trigger is nowhere near rate in 60-card environments. Treat it as a Commander-only card that happens to be technically legal elsewhere.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life sits firmly in bulk territory and is not going anywhere — supply is high and demand is narrow enough that this stays a throw-in. Grab it for pennies and don't overthink it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.