Cards/Shards of Alara/Cradle of Vitality
Cradle of Vitality
Enchantment
Oracle Text
Whenever you gain life, you may pay 
. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.
Naya's trees grow tall and sturdy. Their foliage intertwines to form dewcups, rainwater pools where the elves gather to celebrate life.
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You choose a target when the ability triggers. You don’t choose whether to pay {1}{W} until the ability resolves.
Cradle of Vitality triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it’s 1 life from Deathgreeter or 8 life from Soul’s Grace. You pay the cost just once, but the targeted creature will get a number of counters equal to the amount of life you gained.
If multiple creatures you control with lifelink deal damage simultaneously, each instance is a single life-gain event and the ability will trigger separately for each of them.
Print Details
- Set
- Shards of Alara (ALA)
- Number
- #7
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Trevor Hairsine
- Frame
- 2003
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
Value
- USD
- $0.53
- USD Foil
- $5.93
- EUR
- €0.44
- EUR Foil
- €1.50
- MTGO Tix
- 0.02
Indicative figures.