Gather the White Lotus
Sorcery
Create a 1/1 white Ally creature token for each Plains you control. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #14762
Gather the White Lotus puts three mana into your mana pool the turn you cast it — net positive if you have any way to untap lands or generate value off the spell itself. At one mana, it's one of the cheapest rituals in white, but outside dedicated combo shells it reads as a one-shot burst that doesn't replace itself.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gather the White Lotus slots into two narrow homes: dedicated storm or ritual chains that need every one-mana mana spell they can find, and untap-lands decks where the three white mana becomes recursive. Outside those shells, a one-shot three-mana burst with no card attached falls well short of staples like Arcane Signet. In competitive formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, white rarely wants rituals — the aggressive and control shells that dominate those formats have no use for a sorcery-speed burst that doesn't replace itself. Standard makes it technically legal but practically invisible. Oathbreaker is the most interesting edge case: with a planeswalker commander and a tight spell budget, Gather the White Lotus can fuel an ultimate the turn it would otherwise be out of reach.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Gather the White Lotus is deep bulk — you're paying nearly nothing for a card with a real ceiling in the right deck. Bulk pricing tends to stick unless a breakout commander or combo pushes demand, so don't expect movement, but do feel free to throw a copy in any untap-lands build without a second thought.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.