Sacred Nectar
Sorcery
You gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #25698
Sacred Nectar gains you 4 life for two mana — that's the whole card. In a format where life totals routinely swing by 10 or more in a single turn, that margin is too thin to matter.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sacred Nectar is a bulk common that sees essentially no competitive play across any format. In Commander, life gain needs either a payoff — an Ajani's Pridemate trigger, a Karlov of the Ghost Council counter — or a reset button effect (something like Beacon of Immortality), and Sacred Nectar delivers neither at a meaningful scale. In Pauper it's legal but crowded out by Healing Salve variants and Lone Missionary, which at least leave a body. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; four life at sorcery speed doesn't interact with anything those formats care about.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Sacred Nectar is deep bulk — you'll find it in every commons box at your LGS for free. That price reflects actual demand accurately; there's no sleeper angle here that would push it upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.