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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 legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

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.

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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.