Toil to Renown
Sorcery
You gain 1 life for each tapped artifact, creature, and land you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #26713
Toil to Renown gains you life equal to the number of artifacts and enchantments you control — in the right deck, that's 10+ life for one green mana at instant speed. It's a bulk rare that earns a slot anywhere permanents pile up.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Toil to Renown is narrow enough that it sees no meaningful play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, where life-gain without an attached body or immediate threat rarely makes the cut. In Pauper it's similarly fringe — most decks lack the artifact or enchantment density to make it burst. Commander is where Toil to Renown actually lives: enchantress builds, artifact-heavy stax shells, and Voltron commanders stacking equipment and Auras can realistically gain 15 or 20 life off a single activation, turning a one-mana cantrip-adjacent effect into a meaningful cushion against aggro tables.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Toil to Renown is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable in the downward direction; there's no breakout application on the horizon that would push it, so pick up copies freely and don't hold extras expecting movement.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.