Ivory Cup
Artifact
Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay 
. If you do, you gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #24226
Ivory Cup gains you 1 life whenever a white spell is cast — by anyone — for a one-time payment of one mana and a tap each time. In any format where life totals matter and your deck is majority white spells, it generates slow drip value; in Commander, where 40 life and four players make that drip nearly irrelevant, it doesn't make the cut.
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 |
Ivory Cup is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is simply too slow and too low-impact to compete with the density of powerful options available. Modern has moved so far beyond one-life-per-spell payoffs that Ivory Cup wouldn't see a sideboard, let alone a main deck. Commander is the only format where its multiplayer trigger — firing off every white spell any opponent casts — could theoretically accumulate, but 40 starting life makes incremental life gain a luxury, not a strategy, and a tap cost on top of the activation makes it worse than doing nothing most turns.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Ivory Cup is pure bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a dollar box rather than a deck. Don't expect the price to move; there's no competitive demand pulling it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.