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Gilded Lotus

Artifact

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
From the Vault: Twenty
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#420
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Gilded Lotus card art
Gilded Lotus drops and immediately adds three mana of any color — the kind of on-board impact that accelerates your game plan by a full turn the moment it resolves. Five mana is a real cost, but commanders that can blink or copy it, like Ghostly Flicker loops or Trazyn the Infinite imprinting it as a static ability, extract enough value to make the sticker price irrelevant.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Trazyn the Infinite

Trazyn the Infinite

67.5% of decks · synergy 0.62

Trazyn the Infinite can imprint Gilded Lotus and activate its mana ability directly from the command zone, turning a single artifact into a repeatable three-mana engine that doesn't require Trazyn to survive combat.

03
Mairsil, the Pretender

Mairsil, the Pretender

63.6% of decks · synergy 0.60

Mairsil, the Pretender cages Gilded Lotus and gains the ability to tap for three mana of any color, giving a creature-based commander reliable color fixing and ramp in a single cage counter.

04
Memnarch

Memnarch

55.4% of decks · synergy 0.45

Memnarch's activated abilities are brutally mana-intensive, and Gilded Lotus provides the burst of blue mana needed to steal permanents on the spot rather than waiting multiple turns to accumulate enough resources.

05
Ovika, Enigma Goliath

Ovika, Enigma Goliath

43.1% of decks · synergy 0.37

Ovika, Enigma Goliath triggers off noncreature spells, so the turn you cast Gilded Lotus you're already making tokens — and the three mana it generates afterward helps chain more spells to keep the token engine firing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Gilded Lotus does its best work — the 100-card singleton format rewards mana acceleration that can produce any color, and a five-mana investment that nets three every subsequent turn recoupes its cost faster in longer games. Competitive EDH lists tend to cut it in favor of two-mana rocks, but midrange and casual builds that can't consistently land Arcane Signet across multiple colors lean on Gilded Lotus as a late-game stabilizer. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, it's legal but rarely sees serious play — sixty-card formats don't have the luxury of a five-mana do-nothing-until-next-turn artifact when threats demand answers immediately. Standard legality fluctuates with reprints, and when it's in the format it occasionally shows up in ramp shells, but it's never a format staple outside Commander.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Gilded Lotus has been reprinted frequently enough that copies are widely available across multiple price points — check current listings on Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the most accurate price, since the spread between printings can be significant. If you're picking one up purely for Commander, prioritize whichever printing fits your aesthetic; the card plays identically regardless of version.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.