Survivor of Korlis
Creature — Human Soldier
First strike
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Scry 2.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #23633
Survivor of Korlis turns every point of life you've gained this turn into a life buffer against a single damage source — a one-card answer to lethal combat math or a massive burn spell. The cost is real: it's reactive, it only works if you've already gained life that turn, and a 1/1 body for two mana contributes nothing outside that window.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Survivor of Korlis earns its slot, specifically in life-gain decks that routinely stack double-digit life totals in a single turn — Oloro, Ageless Ascetic and Aetherflux Reservoir shells being the clearest fits. In those lists it functions as a fog-with-upside against a swinging alpha strike or a Thragtusk chain. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, and Vintage, but none of those formats give it a realistic home — competitive play moves too fast and too consistently for a two-mana 1/1 that requires a prior life-gain trigger to do anything. Pauper is the only other format where a budget life-gain shell could theoretically slot it in, but the effect is too conditional to displace more reliable fog or lifegain payoffs.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Survivor of Korlis is deep bulk — the price of a sleeve, not a card. It holds that floor comfortably because demand is narrow and supply is abundant, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.