Cautious Survivor
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if this creature is tapped, you gain 2 life.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-09-20
If a creature with a survival ability isn't tapped when your second main phase begins, the ability won't trigger at all. You won't be able to tap it during your second main phase in time to have that ability trigger.
- 2024-09-20
If a creature's survival ability triggers but that creature is untapped when the ability begins to resolve, that ability won't do anything.
- 2024-09-20
If a creature's survival ability triggers but the creature leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, use its tapped or untapped status as it last existed on the battlefield to determine whether or not the ability will do anything.
- 2024-09-20
Survival abilities (and other abilities that trigger at the beginning of your second main phase) will trigger at the beginning of the second main phase you take in a turn. They won't trigger during your third, fourth, or other additional main phases in a single turn, if effects somehow cause you to have more than two main phases.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Cautious Survivor, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jodah, the Unifier | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 1 deck
Cautious Survivor price history
The Duskmourn: House of Horror #172 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.19 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.20 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.13 | $0.19 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.12 | $0.19 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.11 | $0.19 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.12 | $0.19 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.11 | $0.19 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.10 | $0.19 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.08 | $0.18 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.09 | $0.18 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Cautious Survivor
1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
- Normal
- $0.13
- Foil
- $0.19
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cautious Survivor. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
