Spring of Eternal Peace
Sorcery
You gain 8 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $2.86
- EDHREC rank
- #30693
Spring of Eternal Peace gains you life equal to your land count at the start of each upkeep — which in a dedicated landfall or big-land deck can reach double digits per turn cycle before the table can blink. The cost is that it does exactly nothing else: no card advantage, no interaction, just life, and life alone rarely wins games.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spring of Eternal Peace sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — formats where games end too fast for passive life gain to matter and where dedicated lifegain engines are far more efficient. In Pauper it's technically legal but doesn't slot into any established archetype. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there Spring of Eternal Peace earns its slot only in decks that specifically care about high life totals as a resource — think Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Atraxa, Praetors' Voice life-doubling shells — rather than as incidental padding.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.86 cheap tier
At $2.86, Spring of Eternal Peace sits in the cheap tier but is expensive relative to its narrow application — most Commander staples at this price point do more. It holds that price primarily on scarcity and niche demand rather than widespread playability.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.