Sunscourge Champion
Creature — Human Wizard
When this creature enters, you gain life equal to its power.
Eternalize—
, Discard a card. (, Discard a card, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #23932
Sunscourge Champion enters with a +1/+1 counter and gains you life equal to its power whenever you eternalize or cast it from the graveyard — a repeatable life buffer stapled to a recursive body. The cost is that all of this requires white mana investment both up front and again to recur, making it a slow payoff that rarely clears the bar in competitive pods.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sunscourge Champion is a niche role-player in dedicated life gain builds — it does its job without requiring support, but the payoff is modest unless you have a commander who converts life gain into board advantage. In Modern and Legacy, it never sees play; the format speed means a four-mana 3/2 with conditional life gain is nowhere near rate, and eternalize at seven mana is uncastable in any meaningful context. Pioneer is similarly unkind — white creature strategies there demand immediate impact or powerful enters-the-battlefield effects, and Sunscourge Champion offers neither at a competitive level. Oathbreaker gives it the same narrow life gain niche as Commander, relevant only if your planeswalker and signature spell care about life totals.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Sunscourge Champion is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. Price stability is essentially a non-factor here; it won't rise without a reprint-proof spike in life gain combo demand, which isn't on the horizon.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.