Jaddi Lifestrider
Creature — Elemental
When this creature enters, you may tap any number of untapped creatures you control. You gain 2 life for each creature tapped this way.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #25054
Jaddi Lifestrider enters and gains you life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control — in a deck that taps lots of creatures, that number gets large fast. Five mana for a 3/7 with no evasion is the real cost, so you need the life gain to matter before this earns its slot.
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 |
Commander is where Jaddi Lifestrider actually belongs — multiplayer tables run long, life totals fluctuate wildly, and token or tap-heavy strategies can realistically trigger the ETB for 15 or more life in a single cast. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana for a reactive life gain effect competes with format-defining interaction at one or two mana, so Jaddi Lifestrider has no practical home there. Modern is legal but similarly hostile — the card is too slow and too conditional to see play in a format that ends games on turn four. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home if the planeswalker pairs with a green or white token strategy, where the narrow window of the format still leaves room for big ETB payoffs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Jaddi Lifestrider is deep bulk — grab a copy out of a dollar bin and don't think twice about the price. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb unless they find a combo home, so treat this as a cheap role-player, not a spec target.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.