Samite Herbalist
Creature — Human Cleric
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #17765
Samite Herbalist trades one mana and a tap to gain life equal to a creature's power — conditional, slow, and easy to disrupt. Outside of dedicated life-gain synergy decks that need every redundant piece they can get, it doesn't make the cut.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Samite Herbalist is a fringe Commander pick at best, relevant only in life-gain decks that want density over raw efficiency — think Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn shells desperate for the eighth or ninth copy of a trigger. In Pauper it's technically castable but far too slow for a format where life-gain enablers need to pull more weight. Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Pioneer all ignore it entirely — one life per power is nowhere near the rate those formats demand.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Samite Herbalist is deep bulk — buy it if you need it, but don't expect that price to move in either direction. It's the kind of card that sits in a dollar bin indefinitely.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.