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Nylea's Disciple

Creature — Centaur Archer

When this creature enters, you gain life equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Theros
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#20467
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Nylea's Disciple card art
Nylea's Disciple enters and gains you life equal to your devotion to green — in a dedicated green deck, that's easily 10 or 15 life on a four-mana 3/3 body. The catch is that it does nothing without a board state, and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker combo lines aside, it wins no games on its own.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Nylea's Disciple is a Commander card first and almost exclusively — the format's slower pace lets devotion accumulate before you cast it, and 40-life totals make lifegain a meaningful resource rather than noise. In Pauper it sees fringe play in mono-green devotion shells where the floor of a 3/3 for four is acceptable and the ceiling is a large life swing. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage the card is legal but irrelevant — four mana for conditional lifegain and a vanilla-sized body doesn't meet the competitive bar in any of those formats.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Nylea's Disciple is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing more. It's a stable floor with no realistic upside; this is a card you pull from a collection or grab in a bundle, not one you'd single out.

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