Prideful Feastling
Creature — Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Lifelink
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #18567
Prideful Feastling is a self-contained life-gain engine that grows every time you gain life — you get a creature that both triggers and benefits from the mechanic simultaneously. The cost is raw efficiency: a three-mana 1/1 is a slow start, and any deck running it needs to already be gaining life in bulk to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Prideful Feastling slots cleanly into dedicated life-gain decks where repeated triggers are guaranteed — think Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn, where every upkeep or group hug effect stacks counters without you doing anything extra. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's too fragile and too slow; a 1/1 for three that needs life-gain infrastructure to function doesn't survive the tempo math. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where Prideful Feastling has a plausible home, since the card pool thins and life-gain synergy decks are a real archetype. In Standard, it competes for the three-drop slot against stronger payoffs, so it needs a very specific shell to earn inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Prideful Feastling is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. Bulk life-gain payoffs rarely spike unless they land in a pushed Standard or Modern deck, and nothing about the current meta suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.