Samite Healer
Creature — Human Cleric
: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- Price
- $0.49
- EDHREC rank
- #28267
Samite Healer prevents damage to a creature or player once per turn for one white mana — a reactive, repeatable effect stapled to a 1/1 body that demands your mana every turn to matter. Outside of specific combo shells that exploit the tap ability, it doesn't do enough to justify a slot.
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 |
Samite Healer sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — the effect is too slow and the body too fragile for formats that end games quickly. In Pauper, it's legal but irrelevant outside of very narrow life-gain or damage-prevention synergy brews. Commander is the only format where Samite Healer has ever found a home, specifically in decks that abuse tap effects or damage-prevention loops, but even there it has been largely displaced by creatures that do more with their tap ability.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.49 bulk tier
At $0.49, Samite Healer is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. The price is stable purely because demand is negligible and supply is enormous, not because the card holds any competitive utility.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.