MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #36

Sustaining Spirit

DIGITAL ONLY

me2·#36·rare·foil

Illus. Rebecca Guay

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Sep '08

18 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #24,072 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.02

Nonfoil$0.02

Gameplay

Creature — Angel Spirit

Cumulative upkeep {1}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

"Faith is our greatest protector." —Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran priest

0/3

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 7

2008-10-01wotc

The ability doesn’t change how much damage is dealt; it just changes how much life that damage makes you lose. An effect such as Spirit Link will see the full amount of damage being dealt.

2008-10-01wotc

If an effect asks you to pay life, you can’t pay more life than you have.

2008-10-01wotc

Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it’s not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can’t be made. For example, if a permanent with “cumulative upkeep {1}” has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.

Context

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ME2 — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #36 of *Masters Edition II*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2008 Masters Edition II release.

Card type: Creature — Angel Spirit, color identity white, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {1}{W} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Cumulative upkeep.

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.

EDHrec ranks this card #24,072 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Rebecca Guay. Rarix catalogs 545 other cards credited to this artist.