Chromatic Lantern
Artifact
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- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander
- Price
- $1.13
- EDHREC rank
- #81
Chromatic Lantern solves mana fixing completely — every land taps for any color the moment it hits the battlefield, which is exactly what Sen Triplets and Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse need to cast spells across mismatched color identities without hesitation. Three mana for a rock that also neutralizes greedy manabases is a clean deal, and in five-color or theft-based strategies it's close to mandatory.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sen Triplets
Sen Triplets lets you cast spells from opponents' hands, and Chromatic Lantern ensures you can actually pay for whatever you steal — no matter how far outside your own color identity it falls.
Toph, the First Metalbender
Toph, the First Metalbender cares about artifacts entering the battlefield, and Chromatic Lantern fits neatly into that artifact-dense shell while smoothing the mana that fuels the rest of the engine.
Abaddon the Despoiler
Abaddon the Despoiler rewards casting spells with mana values matching the chaos roll, and Chromatic Lantern lets the deck run a wide spell range without stumbling on off-color pip requirements.
Be'lakor, the Dark Master
Be'lakor, the Dark Master leads a heavily black-weighted Demon tribal deck that often splashes aggressively, and Chromatic Lantern patches the painful fixing those splashes demand.
Saheeli, Radiant Creator
Saheeli, Radiant Creator runs a dense artifact package across multiple colors, and Chromatic Lantern both contributes an artifact to the count and keeps multicolor hands castable.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Chromatic Lantern is a Commander staple first and everything else second — the format's 100-card singleton structure and four-color-or-more commanders make universal land fixing genuinely powerful in a way it rarely is elsewhere. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but essentially unplayed; three mana for a mana rock with no immediate tempo impact is too slow for those formats when two-mana options exist. Legacy and Vintage are the same story — the card is legal, but the formats move too fast for a fixing piece this expensive. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multicolor pressure that Chromatic Lantern sees real play there too, particularly in two-color signatures that want reach into a third.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped EclipseHullbreaker HorrorMystic SpeculationChromatic Lantern
Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite scry; Infinite storm count
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Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped EclipseHullbreaker HorrorRecruit the WorthyChromatic Lantern
Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count
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Current price
$1.13 cheap tier
At $1.13, Chromatic Lantern sits in the tier of staples cheap enough to have no excuse not to own — it's been reprinted heavily, which is exactly why the price stayed floor-level despite near-universal Commander demand. Don't expect it to get more expensive; more reprints are likely, and the current price reflects a card that's abundant, not undervalued.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.