Lifetap
Enchantment
Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Revised Edition
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #20464
Lifetap converts every Forest your opponents tap into 1 life for you — a passive drain that compounds fast at a table with multiple green players. Three mana to cast and zero mana to maintain makes this one of the most efficient life-gain engines available in blue.
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 Lifetap actually does something — in a four-player pod, green is the most common color, and a single Lifetap can generate 20+ life over a game without any further investment. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; no competitive deck in either format taps Forests at a pace that makes a three-mana enchantment worthwhile. Oathbreaker offers a smaller pod environment that makes Lifetap marginally less reliable, though a green-heavy meta can still trigger it often enough to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Lifetap is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Niche enchantments with narrow triggers rarely climb out of this tier unless a new commander makes them a staple, so don't expect appreciation.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.