Samite Pilgrim
Creature — Human Cleric
Domain — 
: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29324
Samite Pilgrim is a narrow protection piece that prevents damage to one target creature or player each turn cycle — useful in theory, too slow and too conditional to earn a slot in most decks. The two-mana investment and tap cost mean you're trading a card and tempo for a shield that any removal spell invalidates before it matters.
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 |
In Commander, Samite Pilgrim sees only fringe play — damage prevention that requires a tap activation is too reactive and too easily punished in a format where one board wipe undoes everything. Pauper is its most plausible home, where the card pool is narrow enough that a repeatable damage-prevention body on a two-mana creature has marginal defensive value in slower white builds. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the effect is simply too low-impact for those formats' power levels. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — skip it.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Samite Pilgrim is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not utility. The price reflects its demand accurately and is unlikely to move without an unexpected reprint into a synergy-heavy product.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.