Invincible Hymn
Sorcery
Count the number of cards in your library. Your life total becomes that number.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $1.98
- EDHREC rank
- #16114
Invincible Hymn sets your life total to the number of cards in your library — a potentially massive swing that can push you out of lethal range in a single activation. Eight mana is the ceiling on cost, not a hidden tax, and outside of dedicated graveyard-emptying synergies like Lich, that life total reset is the whole game plan.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lorehold, the Historian
Lorehold, the Historian mills cards aggressively, and Invincible Hymn converts that growing graveyard displacement — or rather, the remaining library depth — into a life total that scales with how the game has played out, giving the deck a resilience payoff that pairs cleanly with Lorehold's self-referential card-count effects.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Invincible Hymn is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it's a Commander card almost exclusively. Eight mana at sorcery speed is simply unplayable in Legacy and Vintage, where the game is decided before you untap with that much mana on the board. In Modern it's technically castable but has no competitive shell willing to spend eight mana on a life total that doesn't end the game on its own. Commander is where Invincible Hymn actually functions — multiplayer life totals run high, games go long, and the card rewards decks that care about library size or life total thresholds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.98 cheap tier
At $1.98, Invincible Hymn sits comfortably in the cheap tier — accessible without any budget deliberation. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike, but niche Commander staples at this price point tend to hold steady rather than drop further.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.