Well of Life
Artifact
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #27625
Well of Life gains you 1 life per turn as long as you're untapping lands — a condition so easy to meet it's essentially always on — for four mana and no ongoing cost. The effect is too slow and too small to matter in most games; life totals shift by tens, not ones.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Well of Life is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its meaningful home is Commander, where games go long enough that incremental life gain can occasionally matter. Even there, four mana for a do-nothing artifact that gains 1 life per turn is far below the rate dedicated lifegain decks need — commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Karlov of the Ghost Council want triggers that fire in multiples or scale with other pieces, and Well of Life does neither. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for it to register.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Well of Life is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you'd need to buy one. That price reflects demand accurately; there's no niche format breakout waiting to move it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.