Nurturing Licid
Creature — Licid
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: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay to end this effect.: Regenerate enchanted creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #25820
Nurturing Licid turns itself into an Aura that hands a creature regeneration on demand — useful protection, but the hoops required to activate it (pay mana, tap, lose the Licid effect to return it) make it clunkier than a straightforward regeneration enabler. It sees almost no competitive play because cheaper, less fragile options exist.
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 |
Nurturing Licid is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no play in any of them. In Commander, where protecting key creatures matters, the Licid mechanic's inherent awkwardness — requiring mana and a tap to attach, then more mana to detach — means you're spending resources reactively in a format that punishes telegraphed plays. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient protection and regeneration effects, so Nurturing Licid doesn't register there either. It's a curiosity from a design era the game moved past quickly.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Nurturing Licid sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price is unlikely to climb given its narrow application and near-zero demand. Pick it up if a specific Licid-tribal or janky regeneration build calls for it, but don't expect the market to disagree with its current valuation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.