Samite Alchemist
Creature — Human Cleric
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: Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control. Tap that creature. It doesn't untap during your next untap step.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Homelands
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #30797
Samite Alchemist taps to prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn — a repeatable damage shield on a 1/1 body for two mana. The activation requires tapping and paying one white mana, which limits how often you realistically use it, and a vanilla 1/1 does nothing else to justify the slot.
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 |
Samite Alchemist is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, repeatable damage prevention sounds appealing in theory — protecting a key creature turn after turn — but the tap cost and mana investment make it too slow to matter in a format where threats scale to "destroy target player's board." In Pauper, where the card is technically eligible, one-mana interaction and creatures that generate immediate value set the bar higher than a 1/1 that prevents damage once per turn cycle. Samite Alchemist was outclassed by the time it was printed and has only fallen further behind.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Samite Alchemist is deep bulk — the kind of card you find at the bottom of a draft chaff bin. That price reflects its demand accurately, and there's no realistic scenario where it climbs.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.