Words of Worship

Enchantment

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, you gain 5 life instead.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Onslaught
Price
$2.05
EDHREC rank
#18189
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Words of Worship card art
Words of Worship replaces every draw trigger with 5 life — a replacement effect that scales brutally with high-draw engines and becomes a lock piece alongside Lich's Mastery. The cost is real: you're trading cards for life, so running it outside a dedicated life-gain or no-hand-size shell mostly just stalls you.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Words of Worship is a Commander card through and through — the 40-life starting total gives you room to spend the early turns assembling the engine before the life-for-cards swap matters, and multiplayer tables let you pick the exact moment to flip the switch. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but practically irrelevant: those formats move too fast for a three-mana enchantment that doesn't affect the board or generate immediate card advantage. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where it can find a home, specifically in life-gain planeswalker shells where the math works in your favor.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$2.05 cheap tier

At $2.05, Words of Worship sits in the comfortable range where the niche is real but the demand is narrow. It's a stable pickup — combo-dependent enchantments at this price rarely spike hard, but they also don't crater unless a reprint hits a widely distributed set.

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