Troubled Healer
Creature — Human Cleric
Sacrifice a land: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #26466
Troubled Healer trades a land to prevent 1 damage to any target — a narrowly useful effect that demands a real cost for minimal return. The only context where that trade becomes interesting is land-recursion shells like Shifting Woodland decks, and even there it's near the bottom of the pile.
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 |
In Commander, Troubled Healer is a fringe inclusion — it belongs only in dedicated landfall-sacrifice builds where losing a land is a feature, not a bug. In Pauper, the effect is too small and too conditional to compete with the format's efficient commons, and it sees essentially no play. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the effect doesn't come close to the power threshold those formats demand. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in that a very specific land-loop shell is the only home worth considering.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card




Shifting WoodlandAftermath AnalystLotus CobraTroubled Healer
Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Shifting WoodlandAftermath AnalystSpelunkingTroubled Healer
Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers
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Shifting WoodlandAftermath AnalystTireless ProvisionerTroubled Healer
Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens
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Shifting WoodlandAftermath AnalystTroubled HealerAmulet of Vigor
Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite landfall triggers
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Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoTireless ProvisionerTroubled Healer
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite colored mana; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite untap of lands you control
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Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Troubled Healer is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box long before you'd buy a copy singles. That price is stable only because demand is nearly zero, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.