Setessan Battle Priest
Creature — Human Cleric
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25979
Setessan Battle Priest gains you 2 life whenever you cast an aura — a trickle effect that never swings a game on its own. The rate is too slow and the body too small to justify a slot outside a dedicated lifegain-plus-enchantress shell.
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 |
In Commander, Setessan Battle Priest is a fringe include in enchantress or lifegain decks that cast a high volume of auras — outside those shells, the 2-life-per-aura rate is irrelevant at a 40-life table. In Pauper, commons-only lifegain strategies exist but white-green aura builds want to win through a voltron threat, not accumulate life, so it rarely makes the cut there either. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have enough efficient lifegain options that Setessan Battle Priest never competes for a slot. It's a draft common with a narrow constructed niche, and that niche is almost entirely Commander.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Setessan Battle Priest is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the effect. It won't appreciate; the card sees too little play across formats to move off the bulk bin floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.