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Silent Attendant

Creature — Human Cleric

{T}: You gain 1 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Urza's Saga
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#27847
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Silent Attendant card art
Silent Attendant gives you one life per upkeep — a trickle so slow it rarely matters on its own — but it exists almost entirely to be exploited by Agatha's Soul Cauldron and similar activated-ability engines that turn that tap ability into something worth copying. Without a combo shell propping it up, it does nothing a real life-gain card couldn't do better.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Silent Attendant is a fringe card in every format it's legal in, and that list is short: Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In Pauper it has the most theoretical footing, where common-only card pools make tap-for-value creatures more meaningful, but even there the life gain rate is too glacial to matter without redundant untap effects. Commander is its real home — not because the effect is powerful, but because that's where Agatha's Soul Cauldron-style engines, infinite untap loops, and persist-combo shells are plentiful enough to make Silent Attendant's humble tap ability relevant. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly better options and will never touch it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Silent Attendant is pure bulk — pick it up without a second thought if a combo line calls for it. That price is stable by definition: cards this cheap don't move unless they hit a sudden spike from a new combo discovery, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming.

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