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Melira, the Living Cure

Legendary Creature — Human Scout

If you would get one or more poison counters, instead you get one poison counter and you can't get additional poison counters this turn.
Exile Melira: Choose another target creature or artifact. When it's put into a graveyard this turn, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
rare
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#16547
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Melira, the Living Cure card art
Melira, the Living Cure shuts off poison and -1/-1 counters the moment it enters, which is a meaningful hate piece in any meta where infect or Hapatra-style counters show up. The Peregrine Dynamo comparison is instructive: this is a two-mana 1/1 that trades raw stats for a replacement-effect that can brick entire strategies.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Melira, the Living Cure earns a slot as targeted hate against infect decks and -1/-1 counter synergies — two mana is cheap enough that it rarely feels like a wasted include, and flash lets you ambush a Skithiryx attack or a proliferate trigger. In Modern and Legacy, it sees fringe sideboard consideration against infect, though Melira competes with more efficient hate options and rarely cracks main decks. Pioneer infect is too sparse to justify the slot in most lists. Across formats, the card is a specialist, not a staple — it does one job precisely and has no fallback value when that job is irrelevant.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Melira, the Living Cure is firmly bulk — you're paying nothing for a real effect, and that price is unlikely to move unless infect surges in competitive relevance. Pick up copies freely; the cost of being wrong is negligible.

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