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Compassionate Healer

Creature — Human Cleric Ally1 generic manaWhite mana

The trigger keys off tapping, not attacking, which is the design choice that quietly widens where this body works. Most white two-drops that reward you for staying active gate the payoff behind combat: swing, connect, gain life. Here the life and the scry fire the moment the creature taps for any reason, so a convoke cost, a crew ability, a tap-to-activate engine, or an attack all trigger it equally. That untethers the reward from the risk of the red zone. Vigilance is not on the card, but the effect rewards decks that would rather tap it for utility than throw a fragile 2/2 into blockers. The life gain is incidental; the scry is the part that compounds, smoothing a draw one card at a time across a game where the creature keeps getting tapped. It reads as a small engine because it is one: a per-tap loop with no cap, limited only by how often you can convince a modestly-statted Cleric to turn sideways or feed a mana ability. As a payoff it is modest per activation and meaningful in aggregate, the kind of card built to accumulate value rather than swing a turn.

Compassionate Healer (tla)
TLA · #13common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it on the bottom.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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