Profane Prayers
Sorcery
Profane Prayers deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is the number of Clerics on the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #22647
Profane Prayers deals damage to each creature and player equal to the number of Clerics you control — in a dedicated Cleric deck, that's a table-wide drain that can close games from nowhere. The three-mana cost is fair for the effect, but outside a Cleric-heavy build it's unplayable.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant builds a board of Clerics naturally, and Profane Prayers converts that headcount directly into damage spread across every opponent — the more Clerics Orah has recurred, the harder this hits.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Profane Prayers is a niche payoff that earns its slot in Cleric tribal builds and almost nowhere else — hitting every opponent simultaneously means the damage scales with the format's four-player table. Pauper is the other home worth noting: aggressive black lists with Clerics can leverage it as a reach spell at common rarity. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; the effect is too conditional for formats where creature counts are low and the game is decided before a tribal density matters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Profane Prayers is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar bin, not a singles order. That price is stable simply because demand is narrow and supply from reprints is plentiful.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.