Spiritual Focus
Enchantment
Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard a card, you gain 2 life and you may draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $4.19
- EDHREC rank
- #28575
Spiritual Focus replaces any discard with a new card draw and nets you a basic land from your library — turning hand disruption into ramp and card advantage simultaneously. It only earns its slot if your meta runs meaningful discard, but in those tables it's a two-mana enchantment that punishes opponents for targeting you.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spiritual Focus is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's the full list — it's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper. Commander is the only format where it sees any real consideration, specifically in white-green or Bant builds that want land acceleration and expect hand disruption from wheels, targeted discard, or mass loot effects. Legacy and Vintage have it on the legality list, but neither format gives Spiritual Focus a meaningful home — the effect is too slow and conditional against those fields.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$4.19 cheap tier
At $4.19, Spiritual Focus sits in the cheap tier despite being a narrow, rarely-played enchantment — that price is driven by low reprint history and limited supply rather than demand. It's not a card that's likely to spike, and you can find it at this price point without urgency.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.