Lady Caleria
Legendary Creature — Elf Archer
: Lady Caleria deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $25.19
- EDHREC rank
- #27623
Lady Caleria is a 3/6 first strike archer who taps to deal 3 damage to any creature with flying — a repeatable, no-mana-cost answer to the most evasive threats in the game. Six mana is a real ask, but the body survives most of what it shoots down, and the tap ability doesn't cost a card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Lady Caleria actually gets to work — games go long enough to recoup the six-mana investment, and flying creatures dominate the format at every power level. The tap ability answers dragons, sphinxes, and combo-enablers that would otherwise be hard to interact with at instant speed for free. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats on paper, but Lady Caleria is far too slow and narrow to see play in either. Oathbreaker is the only other format worth mentioning, and even there she only fits in slower Selesnya or Naya shells where the board stabilizes long enough to use her repeatedly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Greatbow Doyen and Ranger of Eos-adjacent archer synergies aside, Silkenfist Fighter and Taurean Mauler don't replicate the tap ability — the honest budget replacement is Stinging Study of bodies, but for raw flying removal on a stick, Longbow Archer ($0.25) covers the first-strike-plus-reach angle at a fraction of the cost. Lady Caleria's tap-to-deal-3 is genuinely unique, though, so if that repeatable no-cost interaction is the reason you want her, there's no clean substitute under five dollars.
Price Context
Current price
$25.19 premium tier
At $25.19, Lady Caleria sits in premium territory for a card that sees no competitive play and holds a narrow Commander niche. The price is driven almost entirely by Reserved List status — supply is fixed, and old-border casual demand keeps it there, but that's not a reason to buy in unless the deck genuinely needs what she does.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.