Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Save Life

W · Instant

Choose one — • Target player gains 2½ life. • Prevent the next 2½ damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Gotcha — If an opponent says "save" or "life," you may say "Gotcha!" When you do, return Save Life from your graveyard to your hand.

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Rift Legendary Land Before drawing your hand, you may start the game with Rift in your opening hand. If you do, draw one fewer card. (Mulligans continue as normal.) Rift enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}.
Sea God's Scorn 4UUSorcery Return up to three target creatures and/or enchantments to their owners' hands.
Man-o'-War 2UCreature — Jellyfish When Man-o'-War enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand. 2/2
Renewed Faith 2WInstant You gain 6 life. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Renewed Faith, you may gain 2 life.
Shard of the Nightbringer 5BBBCreature — C'tan Flying Drain Life — When Shard of the Nightbringer enters the battlefield, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. 8/8
Construction Arsonist 1RCreature — Goblin Rogue Wizard When Construction Arsonist enters the battlefield, you may choose an instant or sorcery card in your hand. If you do, that card perpetually incorporates {R} and gains "When you cast this spell, it deals 2 damage to each opponent." Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, Construction Arsonist gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each of that spell's colors. 2/2
Marauding Blight-Priest 2BCreature — Vampire Cleric Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. 3/2
Nissa, Vital Force 3GGLegendary Planeswalker — Nissa [+1]: Untap target land you control. Until your next turn, it becomes a 5/5 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land. [−3]: Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. [−6]: You get an emblem with "Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card." Loyalty 5
Blood Clock 4Artifact At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand unless they pay 2 life.
Admiral Beckett Brass 1UBRLegendary Creature — Human Pirate Other Pirates you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your end step, gain control of target nonland permanent controlled by a player who was dealt combat damage by three or more Pirates this turn. 3/3
Page 328