Natural Spring

Sorcery

Target player gains 8 life.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Salvat 2011
Price
EDHREC rank
#26763
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Natural Spring card art
Natural Spring gives one player eight life — no permanent, no land, no ongoing effect, just a one-time life bump for six mana. Outside of very specific lifegain-matters strategies, six mana for eight life is nowhere near a competitive rate.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Natural Spring is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, where six mana needs to dramatically change a board state, Natural Spring rarely justifies the slot — lifegain decks that care about the trigger (Oloro, Ageless Ascetic; Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose) can find that eight life on cheaper cards. In Pauper it's similarly outclassed by cards like Revitalize or Rest for the Weary at a fraction of the cost. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all.

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Pricing data for Natural Spring isn't available here — check Scryfall for current listings. Given its limited competitive application, it's almost certainly a bulk common regardless of edition.

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