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Searing Meditation

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{R}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
rare
Set
Ravnica: City of Guilds
Price
$0.29
EDHREC rank
#24918
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Searing Meditation card art
Searing Meditation turns every life-gain trigger into a repeatable ping — two damage to any target, no mana required after the initial {1}{R}{W} to cast. The catch is consistency: it only fires when you gain life, so it's a payoff card, not an engine, and it does nothing in a deck that ignores life-gain entirely.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Searing Meditation is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and life-gain-matters commanders give it the repeated triggers it needs to justify a deck slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant; three mana for a conditional, non-immediate effect doesn't compete in those formats. Modern has the card pool to build around life-gain, but dedicated life-gain aggro there doesn't want a slow enchantment when Soul Warden and Ajani's Pridemate close games faster. Stick to Commander, and only Commander decks built explicitly around life-gain triggers.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.29 bulk tier

At $0.29, Searing Meditation is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap order filler. Don't expect the price to move; it's a niche enchantment with a narrow home, and supply from its original printing keeps the floor firmly at bulk-rare territory.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.