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Gravebreaker Lamia

Enchantment Creature — Snake Lamia

Lifelink
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {1} less to cast.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Theros Beyond Death Promos
Price
$1.49
EDHREC rank
#3519
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Gravebreaker Lamia card art
Gravebreaker Lamia enters, tutors any card directly into your graveyard, and permanently makes everything you cast from the yard cost one less — that's three relevant effects stapled to a 4/4 lifelink body for five mana. Graveyard commanders like Muldrotha, the Gravetide and Chainer, Nightmare Adept run it because the cost reduction compounds fast enough to justify the slot on its own, even before the tutor fires.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Chainer, Nightmare Adept

53.6% of decks · synergy 0.53

Chainer, Nightmare Adept casts creatures from graveyards every turn, and Gravebreaker Lamia's cost reduction makes each of those reanimations cheaper — the two cards form a self-reinforcing engine that accelerates your whole board.

02
Ghen, Arcanum Weaver

Ghen, Arcanum Weaver

45.6% of decks · synergy 0.45

Ghen, Arcanum Weaver sacrifices enchantments to reanimate others, and Gravebreaker Lamia both tutors the enchantment you need into the yard and cuts the cost of recurring it.

03
Muldrotha, the Gravetide

Muldrotha, the Gravetide

45.9% of decks · synergy 0.42

Muldrotha, the Gravetide replays permanents from the graveyard every turn, so Gravebreaker Lamia's universal cost reduction applies to virtually every play Muldrotha makes — the discount adds up across a full game of replaying lands, creatures, and spells.

04
The Master of Keys

The Master of Keys

43.5% of decks · synergy 0.42

The Master of Keys leans on graveyard recursion loops, and Gravebreaker Lamia's enters-the-battlefield tutor seeds those loops while shaving a mana off each subsequent cast.

05
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

38.2% of decks · synergy 0.37

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer casts cards from the graveyard as a core mechanic, and Gravebreaker Lamia stacks discount on top of discount — between Oskar's own reduction and the Lamia's, your graveyard effectively becomes a free-spell toolbox.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Gravebreaker Lamia is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander. A five-mana 4/4 with a one-time tutor effect is too slow for Legacy and Modern, where the graveyard-matters decks that want this effect demand faster, cheaper pieces. Pioneer is the same story — the card is legal but not competitive at that cost. In Commander, the math flips: a tutor that mills to your graveyard plus a permanent cost reduction on all graveyard casts is genuinely powerful in a 100-card singleton format where assembling pieces takes time and every mana saved compounds across a long game.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.49 cheap tier

At $1.49, Gravebreaker Lamia is firmly budget territory for a card that pulls real weight in graveyard Commander decks. The price reflects its limited competitive demand outside Commander, which means you're getting strong singleton value at a floor that's unlikely to climb without a reprint ban or a sudden spike in Pioneer graveyard play.

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