Tireless Missionaries
Creature — Human Cleric
When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #28936
Tireless Missionaries is a five-mana 3/3 that gains you 4 life on entry — a mediocre rate in most contexts, but passable in formats where lifegain triggers matter. The cost is real: five mana for a vanilla-statted creature with no recursion, evasion, or sustained effect is a lot to ask outside a dedicated lifegain shell.
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 |
In Commander, Tireless Missionaries earns a slot only in lifegain-matters decks where every instance of gaining life triggers payoffs like Ajani's Pridemate or Karlov of the Ghost Council — outside that shell, it's too slow and too low-impact for a 100-card format. In Pauper it's a common, but five mana for a 3/3 with a one-time lifegain trigger doesn't clear the efficiency bar when the format has cheaper options. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no interest in Tireless Missionaries at this rate. Pioneer is similarly cold — the lifegain payoffs in that format demand either more life gained or a cheaper enabler.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Tireless Missionaries is deep bulk — you'll find it in common boxes or draft chaff piles, not trade binders. That price is stable by default: there's no spike scenario that moves a card this narrowly playable.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.