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Healing Grace

Healing Grace

Instant

common

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn by a source of your choice. You gain 3 life.

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Semantic Tags

Life Gainmechanical

Gains you life. Relevant for lifegain-matters strategies and general survivability.

Life Gainvector

Gains you life. Relevant for lifegain-matters strategies and general survivability.

Triggers or payoffs when you gain life — not just life gain itself, but caring about it.

Lifelinkvector

A keyword ability that causes a player to gain life. See rule 702.15, “Lifelink.”

Discourages opponents from attacking you with taxes, penalties, and deterrents.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
pauperlegal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (2)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
The List#DOM-20common···
Dominaria#20common···

Related Rules

120.3f

Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source’s controller to gain that much life, in addition to the damage’s other results.

120.4d

Finally, the damage event occurs.

122.1b

A keyword counter on a permanent or on a card in a zone other than the battlefield causes that object to gain that keyword. The keywords that a keyword counter can be are flying, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, decayed, exalted, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, shadow, trample, and vigilance, as well as any variants of those keywords. See rule 613.1f.

702.15

Lifelink

702.15a

Lifelink is a static ability.

702.15b

Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source’s controller, or its owner if it has no controller, to gain that much life (in addition to any other results that damage causes). See rule 120.3.

702.15c

If an object changes zones before an effect causes it to deal damage, its last known information is used to determine whether it had lifelink.

702.15d

The lifelink rules function no matter what zone an object with lifelink deals damage from.

Rulings

2018-04-27

You choose only one source, even if that source won’t deal 3 damage.

2018-04-27

Healing Grace only targets the creature, planeswalker, or player that will receive the damage prevention “shield.” The source isn’t targeted.

2018-04-27

You gain 3 life as Healing Grace resolves, even if there’s no damage to prevent.