First printed in Zendikar Rising (2020)
Creature — Kor Cleric
Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.
: Another target Cleric gains lifelink until end of turn.
"My cats have taught me more about the sacred than anything in some old ruin."
2/3
- Illustrated by
- Wisnu Tan
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (6)
- An ability that triggers “whenever you gain life” triggers just once for each life-gaining event, no matter how much life you gain.
- An ability that triggers whenever you gain life “for the first time each turn” won’t trigger if you gain life during a turn before the permanent with that ability is on the battlefield, even if you gain life again later in the turn.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won’t cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team’s life total to increase.
- If you gain an amount of life “for each” of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability will trigger only once.
- Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, a “whenever you gain life” ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
- Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 2026).
