Keeper of the Light
Creature — Human Wizard
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: Choose target opponent who has more life than you do as you activate this ability. You gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Exodus
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #30344
Keeper of the Light gives you a repeatable mana-drain effect — taxing opponents' spells each turn and funneling that life into your own resources — stapled to a body that shows up early enough to matter. The cost is real: it needs white opponents to fire consistently, which makes it a role-player in high-diversity pods rather than a universal all-star.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Keeper of the Light earns its slot, specifically in white-heavy metas where at least one opponent reliably triggers its ability every turn cycle. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with a card pool that simply doesn't care about incremental life-based taxation — nobody is registering Keeper of the Light in a Delver shell. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: playable if the table runs white, ignorable otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Keeper of the Light is bulk — no barrier to picking up a copy if the angle fits your deck. Bulk white creatures at this price point don't appreciate meaningfully, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.