Remedy
Instant
Prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Visions
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #19498
Remedy gains you 2 life per target creature — modest on rate, but in token-flood decks the number stacks fast. Outside of King of the Oathbreakers, where padding your life total buys time for an Assassin army to close, there are cleaner options for almost every Commander shelf.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
King of the Oathbreakers
King of the Oathbreakers generates a swarm of Assassin tokens that want to attack into blockers, and Remedy turns each of those bodies into a life buffer that keeps you ahead on damage races long enough for the token engine to overwhelm the table.
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 |
Remedy is a bulk role-player and nothing more. In Commander it occupies a narrow life-gain niche — useful in King of the Oathbreakers lists where token count scales the effect, irrelevant in most others. Pauper is its most honest home: the life-gain ceiling is low, but so is the competition, and the instant speed matters when racing aggressive red decks. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Remedy does nothing that those formats care about.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
Remedy sits at $0.08 — deep bulk, buy-it-in-a-pile territory. At that price there's no value argument to make either way; you're not picking it up for investment, you're sleeving it because the synergy called for it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.