Split-Tail Miko
Creature — Fox Cleric
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: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #25321
Split-Tail Miko gives you a repeatable, free life payment engine on a two-mana body — tap to prevent 1 damage at the cost of 1 life, which sounds defensive but is really a resource converter for decks that want life totals to fluctuate. The cost is that it does almost nothing in a vacuum: without payoffs for life loss or life gain, it's a 1/1 that mostly gets ignored.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Split-Tail Miko earns a slot in Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose shells that want cheap, repeatable life-gain triggers on demand — it's not a staple, but it fills a specific role at minimal cost. Pauper is where it's most structurally honest: aggressive white life-gain decks can use the trigger density, and a two-mana 1/1 with a relevant ability is more competitive at that power level. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Split-Tail Miko has no business in formats where the bar for a two-mana creature is absurdly high. Modern has more synergistic life-gain pieces that do the same job more efficiently, so it doesn't crack lists there either.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Split-Tail Miko is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It won't hold or gain value, but that's irrelevant: you pick it up because you need the effect, not because you're managing a budget.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.