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Social Climber

Creature — Human Druid

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Streets of New Capenna
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#13154
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Social Climber card art
Social Climber drains each opponent for 1 life every time you gain life, turning any lifegain trigger into a slow-burn clock across the table. Dina, Soul Steeper already punishes opponents for your life gains, and Social Climber stacks right on top of that — Trudge Garden gives you a repeatable lifegain engine that makes both payoffs fire simultaneously.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Dina, Soul Steeper

Dina, Soul Steeper

24.4% of decks · synergy 0.24

Dina, Soul Steeper's static ability already pings opponents whenever you gain life, and Social Climber doubles the punishment on every trigger — one lifegain event becomes damage from Dina plus a drain from Social Climber, collapsing life totals fast in a four-player game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Social Climber is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. Commander is where it actually matters — the three-opponent table multiplies every drain trigger by three, turning incremental lifegain into real pressure. In Pauper it's a legal option for lifegain-drain shells, but the format's speed and two-player structure make the one-per-trigger drain underwhelming without a dedicated engine behind it. Elsewhere it's too slow and too conditional to compete.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Social Climber is deep bulk — you're not paying a premium for access. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications tend to stay at this floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no meaningful risk buying a playset.

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