Life Goes On
Instant
You gain 4 life. If a creature died this turn, you gain 8 life instead.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17599
Life Goes On gains you 8 life if a creature died this turn — which is almost always the case in Commander — for a single green mana at instant speed. It's a fine sideboard card in creature-heavy formats and a passable lifegain trigger in dedicated lifegain builds, but outside those shells it's too low-impact to earn a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Life Goes On is strictly a lifegain-matters card — running it in a generic green deck just to pad your total isn't worth a card slot. Pauper is its best home: the format's creature-heavy aggro metagame means the 8-life mode is nearly guaranteed, and at common it slots cleanly into lifegain sideboards alongside Lone Missionary and similar. In Modern and Pioneer, it's too slow and too conditional to compete with dedicated lifegain options at the same or lower mana cost. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it at all.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Life Goes On isn't currently available, but as a common with narrow applications it historically sits well under $1. It's worth picking up only if you're actively building a lifegain-matters Commander or Pauper deck — otherwise there's no urgency.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.