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Lifecreed Duo

Creature — Bat Bird

Flying
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Bloomburrow
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#3787
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Lifecreed Duo card art
Lifecreed Duo enters with two +1/+1 counters on it and puts one on another creature you control — that's three counters on the board for three mana, which is genuinely good rate in any counters-matter shell. The cost is that it needs a second creature to deliver the full payoff, so it underperforms in empty-board situations. Zoraline, Cosmos Caller and Scurry Oak both make that condition trivially easy to meet, which is exactly why this card shows up in 90% of Zoraline lists.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

89.5% of decks · synergy 0.85

Zoraline, Cosmos Caller rewards every counter placement with additional scaling — Lifecreed Duo drops three counters across two bodies the moment it resolves, which is exactly the density Zoraline needs to pull ahead fast.

02
Kastral, the Windcrested

Kastral, the Windcrested

32.0% of decks · synergy 0.30

Kastral, the Windcrested cares about creatures with counters on them triggering flight-related payoffs, and Lifecreed Duo seeds two creatures at once, doubling the trigger potential for a single three-mana investment.

04
Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.23

Trelasarra, Moon Dancer gets a counter and a scry every time you gain life, and Lifecreed Duo being a counter-dense body means it accelerates Trelasarra's own growth while enabling the lifegain triggers needed to keep the engine running.

05
Choco, Seeker of Paradise

Choco, Seeker of Paradise

17.3% of decks · synergy 0.16

Choco, Seeker of Paradise benefits from a wide board of counter-laden creatures, and Lifecreed Duo efficiently seeds that board state with minimal investment across two permanents.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Lifecreed Duo does its best work — three mana for three counters spread across two bodies is the kind of tempo-positive play that counters-matter and lifegain commanders actively want, and the 100-card singleton format means you're looking for redundancy at this effect, not exclusivity. In Standard and Pioneer, it's a playable role-player in aggressive counters decks but competes with more efficient options and lacks the broken synergy density to demand a slot. Modern and Legacy are too fast for a three-mana do-nothing-on-its-own creature that requires a board state to maximize value. Pauper is worth watching — at common, Lifecreed Duo is among the more efficient counter-distributors available at that rarity, and any future common support for counters synergies could elevate it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

54 decks
Basking BroodscaleLifecreed DuoCleric Class

Basking BroodscaleLifecreed DuoCleric Class

Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite colorless mana

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Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Lifecreed Duo is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping more than the card itself. Bulk rares with genuine combo utility tend to creep up if the synergy gets discovered more broadly, but at this price the buy-in risk is essentially zero.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.