Sustenance
Enchantment
, Sacrifice a land: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #26007
Sustenance turns any Food token or spare artifact into a mana-free life payment on demand, which matters most when you're running engines that care about life total or need a slow drip of incidental gain. The upfront cost is a single green mana and it stays in play, so it's a repeatable resource, not a one-shot — the question is whether your deck actually wants that resource.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sustenance is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card — the formats where slow, incremental life gain has time to matter. In Commander, it slots into Food-token strategies, lifegain payoff decks, and any shell that generates excess artifacts and wants a sink for them. Legacy and Vintage don't want it: those formats close too fast for a one-life-per-artifact enchantment to register. Oathbreaker could support it in a lifegain-themed build, but the smaller deck size and faster games make it a fringe inclusion at best.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Sustenance is deep bulk — you're not buying this for monetary value, you're buying it because it fills a specific role cheaply. Don't expect the price to move; it's a narrow enchantment with a small audience, and supply is not a constraint.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.