Joyous Respite
Sorcery — Arcane
You gain 1 life for each land you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #22214
Joyous Respite gains you life equal to the number of lands you control — a number that climbs fast in green — but four mana for a sorcery that does nothing to the board is too slow to matter in most games. There are better four-mana plays in every shell that wants this effect.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Joyous Respite is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, where life totals start at 40 and games are decided by card advantage and board presence, a sorcery that only pads your life total is a near-dead draw past turn three. Pauper is its most plausible home — the format's lower power ceiling makes life-gain payoffs more meaningful — but even there, cheaper options exist. Outside dedicated life-gain or landfall shells, Joyous Respite is a sideboard curiosity at best.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Joyous Respite is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a long box rather than buy. There's no pressure on that price to move; demand is too low to push it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.