Venerable Monk
Creature — Human Monk Cleric
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #27458
Venerable Monk enters the battlefield, gains you 2 life, and then does nothing else — ever. A 2/2 body for three mana with a negligible lifegain trigger is not a card slot; it's a placeholder.
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 |
Venerable Monk is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, 40 life makes 2 life irrelevant, and a vanilla 2/2 at three mana is embarrassing next to nearly anything else in white. Pauper is the only format where the bar is low enough that a 2/2 for three sees occasional fringe consideration, and even there it doesn't make lists. Everywhere else, Venerable Monk is a draft common that was underpowered when it was new.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Venerable Monk is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a box slot at a card show. There is no price floor to fall through, and no demand driver on the horizon that would change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.