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Royal Herbalist

Creature — Human Cleric

{2}, Exile the top card of your library: You gain 1 life.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Alliances
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#30406
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Royal Herbalist card art
Royal Herbalist converts spare lands into life — a steady, repeatable source of lifegain that rewards the grind-it-out strategies Spider-Man, Peter Parker enables. The cost is real: it's a mana sink with no immediate board impact, so if you're not actively building toward a life total payoff, Royal Herbalist is doing very little.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Royal Herbalist is a Pauper-legal common, and that's where it has the most relevance — lifegain synergy decks can put its activated ability to work in slower, grindier metas. In Commander, it's a fringe inclusion: the effect is too incremental to matter unless you're running a dedicated lifegain payoff package, and even then there are more powerful options. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Royal Herbalist's ceiling isn't close to what those formats demand.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Royal Herbalist is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than order. Price stability is essentially guaranteed at this floor, but that's cold comfort; bulk commons don't appreciate, and there's no competitive demand driving a change.

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