Stir the Pride
Instant
Choose one —
• Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."
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(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #26771
Stir the Pride gives your entire team lifelink and a global power pump for one turn — the kind of alpha-strike finisher that ends stalled boards. Five mana is the honest cost for what amounts to a one-sided Overrun variant in white, and at that price it earns its slot in any lifegain or wide-token shell.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Stir the Pride is a Commander card through and through — its payoff scales directly with board width, and nowhere is that more reliably achieved than in a 100-card singleton format with multiple opponents to pressure. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but effectively invisible; five-mana sorceries that don't win the game on the spot don't compete in those environments. Modern is the same story: the format is too fast and too creature-light for a pump spell that requires a developed battlefield. Commander is where Stir the Pride actually functions as designed — a one-turn lifelink anthem that either closes out the game or generates a substantial life buffer to survive the next rotation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Stir the Pride sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy inclusion decision for any budget Commander build. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb, but at this cost there's no reason to wait.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.