Elenda's Hierophant
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Vampire Cleric
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander #71 (rare)
- Price
- $5.50 USD
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.
Elenda's Hierophant has 3 printings, first in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (2023). EDHREC ranks it #1,840 among Commander cards. It appears most in Edgar Markov decks (10,002 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Elenda's Hierophant
- Blood Rites - The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander, led by Clavileño, First of the Blessed
- Hatsune Miku - Secret Lair Commander, led by Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
Commanders that run Elenda's Hierophant most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Edgar Markov: 10,002 decks
- Clavileño, First of the Blessed: 8,258 decks
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic: 6,335 decks
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose: 3,952 decks
- Trostani, Selesnya's Voice: 3,668 decks
- Betor, Ancestor's Voice: 3,313 decks
- Hope Estheim: 3,228 decks
- Astarion, the Decadent: 2,857 decks
Often played with Elenda's Hierophant
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The second ability of Elenda's Hierophant triggers just once for each life-gaining event, no matter how much life was gained.
- : If Elenda's Hierophant is dealt lethal damage at the same time that you gain life, it won't receive a counter from its second ability in time to save it.
- : 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, Elenda's Hierophant's second 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.
- : In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the second ability of Elenda's Hierophant 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 second ability of Elenda's Hierophant triggers only once.