Aspect of Lamprey
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, target opponent discards two cards.
Enchanted creature has lifelink.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #17009
Aspect of Lamprey enchants a creature you control and forces the opponent it attacks to discard their hand — a repeatable, targeted hand-wipe stapled to combat. Two mana for that effect is absurdly cheap; the catch is that it requires attacks to connect, so it folds to a blocker.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Aspect of Lamprey is a politics and disruption piece — slap it on a evasive creature attacking the most threatening player and you'll strip their hand within two turns. Pauper is where it gets genuinely dangerous: at common rarity with no format-wide hand-refill staples, sustained discard through combat is hard to recover from. In Modern and Legacy the effect is too slow and too conditional to compete with dedicated discard spells, but in casual or budget builds of either format it can show up on a voltron-style threat. Pioneer sits in the same boat as Modern — legal but not competitive. Aspect of Lamprey is a card that rewards formats and tables where repeated combat damage isn't immediately answered.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Aspect of Lamprey is deep bulk — there's essentially no financial barrier to picking up a copy. Bulk enchantments rarely spike unless they find a breakout Commander synergy, so don't expect this to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.