Redemption Choir
Creature — Vampire Cleric
Lifelink
Coven — Whenever this creature enters or attacks, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Price
- $0.84
- EDHREC rank
- #6025
Redemption Choir enters and immediately converts your life total into a board — each life point above a threshold becomes a 1/1 flying Spirit token, making a single resolved copy potentially explosive in the right shell. The cost is real: five mana is a lot to commit before your token count matters, but Clavileño, First of the Blessed turns every one of those tokens into a draw engine, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter can blink it repeatedly to stack the effect.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Clavileño, First of the Blessed
Clavileño, First of the Blessed runs Redemption Choir because every Spirit token it produces triggers Clavileño's draw-and-reanimate ability whenever one dies in combat, turning a single high-life-total entry into a cascading card advantage engine.
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher scales on life total manipulation and creature production, and Redemption Choir delivers both in one card — the flood of tokens feeds Carmen's counters while the life-spending syncs with her drain-and-gain gameplan.
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
Orah, Skyclave Hierophant wants a wide Cleric board to trigger its reanimation chain, and Redemption Choir's token output provides the critical mass of bodies at instant speed when a Cleric dies mid-combat.
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Elenda, the Dusk Rose grows on creature deaths and generates her own tokens when she dies, so Redemption Choir's wave of expendable fliers accelerates her counter accumulation and gives the deck sacrifice fodder without spending a draw step.
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 |
Commander is where Redemption Choir does its best work — life totals start at 40, which means a healthy player can realistically produce 15 to 25 tokens off a single cast, a number that's nearly irrelevant in 20-life formats. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but functionally unplayable: five mana for conditional tokens in formats defined by turn-two kills is a non-starter. Oathbreaker sits in the middle ground, with 20-life totals trimming the token ceiling significantly, though life-gain builds can still make it worthwhile.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Aminatou, the FateshifterHeart of KiranRedemption Choir
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB
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Current price
$0.84 bulk tier
At $0.84, Redemption Choir is bulk — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought and rarely regret. Bulk rares with narrow tribal and life-gain homes tend to stay flat or drift lower unless a new commander pushes them, so treat this as a role-player pickup, not a hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.