Elenda's Hierophant
Elenda's Hierophant: Creature - Vampire Cleric, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Vampire Cleric
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Collector number
- 71
- Artist
- Miranda Meeks
- Commander rank
- 1,881 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying
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About Elenda's Hierophant
Elenda's Hierophant is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white creature from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC), a Commander product released in November 2023. It is collector number 71 in that set, with art by Miranda Meeks. It costs {2}{W} (two generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets, from The List (2020) to The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $5.76 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $5.76 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Elenda's Hierophant by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Elenda's Hierophant
Elenda's Hierophant has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #LCC-71 | Rare | 2026 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) #39 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Elenda's Hierophant, newest first.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Elenda's Hierophant is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.