Price$8.43 – $11.07
Buy on TCGplayerEnduring Vitality
Enchantment Creature — Elk Glimmer
LegalRampRank #504
Creatures you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
When Enduring Vitality dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
3/3
KeywordsVigilance
Why is this card good?
Why it's good: This is a one-card Cryptolith Rite stapled onto a resilient body, at three mana. Every creature you control becomes a mana dork, which scales explosively in go-wide and token decks. The death trigger means board wipes and removal don't fully answer it — it comes back as an enchantment that still grants the ability, so your mana engine survives where Cryptolith Rite would die to the same wipe.
Who wants it: Token commanders (Krenko, Jetmir, Adrian Tomei), elfball, and any deck flooding the board with bodies. It enables huge X-spells, makes Craterhoof-style finishes possible, and fixes colors in multicolor green decks. Aristocrats brews like the ramp redundancy too.
When to skip it: Decks with few creatures get nothing — it's dead in spellslinger or control shells. It's also a "win-more" ramp piece if your board is empty; you need bodies already down to benefit. And like all mana-dork strategies, it's vulnerable to creature-targeted sweepers (though the recursion softens that meaningfully).
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Printings (6)
Combos (8)
- Emiel the Blessed + Enduring Vitality
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Aggravated Assault + Enduring Vitality
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite combat phases, Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy + Pili-Pala + Enduring Vitality
→ Infinite colored mana
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy + Horseshoe Crab + Enduring Vitality
→ Infinite colored mana, Put most creature cards from your library onto the battlefield
- Badgermole Cub + Pili-Pala + Enduring Vitality
→ Infinite colored mana
- Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk + Pyrohemia + Enduring Vitality
→ Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Near-infinite combat phases, Near-infinite damage to all players
Rulings (3)
- 2024-09-20
Elk and Glimmer are both creature types. Enduring Vitality won't have those creature types when its last ability returns it to the battlefield because it won't be a creature.
- 2024-09-20
A token that's a copy of Enduring Vitality won't return to the battlefield when its last ability resolves.
- 2024-09-20
If a nontoken permanent that's a copy of Enduring Vitality dies while it's a creature, it will return to the battlefield as an enchantment when its last ability resolves. It won't have any card types other than enchantment.