Taste of Paradise
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay 
any number of times.
You gain 3 life plus an additional 3 life for each additional you paid.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alliances
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #29089
Taste of Paradise costs three mana to gain three life and put a +1/+1 counter on a creature — a sorcery-speed split of two weak effects that neither stabilizes a board nor advances a game plan. Skip it in almost every context; the only home where this earns its slot is a dedicated life-gain-matters or +1/+1 counter commander that can extract value from both halves.
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 |
Taste of Paradise is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in any of those formats has no use for it. In Commander — its most realistic home — three mana for three life and a single counter is simply too low-impact unless a commander specifically rewards both mechanics on the same card. Pauper is the one format where bulk commons occasionally carve out a niche, but even there, dedicated life-gain shells have more efficient options. Treat Taste of Paradise as a casual Commander inclusion only, and only then in a deck that doubles down on counters and life-gain synergies simultaneously.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Taste of Paradise is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box before you'd bother ordering it. The price reflects its narrow playability, and there's no pressure trajectory that would move it; it stays a bulk common.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.