Cavern Lampad
Enchantment Creature — Nymph
Bestow 
(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has intimidate.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Theros
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #23281
Cavern Lampad slaps intimidate onto any creature you enchant, making it unblockable against the majority of boards that aren't running the right creature types. The cost — four mana for a 1/3 that does nothing if the enchanted creature dies — is steep enough that it only earns its slot in dedicated Aura or constellation strategies.
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 |
Cavern Lampad is a Pauper staple in Bogles-style decks, where stacking Auras on a hexproof one-drop makes intimidate a near-guaranteed hit every combat. In Commander, the card is too slow and fragile for most powered tables — four mana to grant a keyword with no inherent protection is a liability when any removal spell collapses the whole investment. It finds a real home in enchantress commanders like Siona, Captain of the Pyleas or Tuvasa the Sunlit, where the constellation trigger and card-draw engines offset the tempo cost. Legacy and Modern have faster, more resilient Aura suites that crowd it out. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: playable in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Cavern Lampad is deep bulk — you're picking these out of a commons box, not buying singles. It holds that floor reliably given its Pauper demand, but there's no pressure scenario that pushes it meaningfully higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.