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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
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Prophecy
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#26466
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Troubled Healer card art
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

FormatVerdict
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

8 decks
Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoTireless ProvisionerTroubled Healer

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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Price Context

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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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.