Lagonna-Band Storyteller
Creature — Centaur Advisor
When this creature enters, you may put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library. If you do, you gain life equal to its mana value.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22345
Lagonna-Band Storyteller puts a card in hand every time a creature with power 4 or greater enters your battlefield, which in the right shell is a repeatable draw engine stapled to a three-mana body. The cost is that it does nothing in isolation — without a steady stream of fatties, it's a 2/4 vanilla.
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 |
Lagonna-Band Storyteller is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and creature-heavy stompy or +1/+1 counter strategies give it the density of large creatures it needs to fire repeatedly. In Modern or Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional; dedicated draw spells cost less mana and don't require a board state. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a 2/4 that needs setup. In Commander, slot it into decks where a Xenagos, God of Revels or Atraxa, Praetors' Voice shell is routinely landing creatures with power 4 or greater — that's the only context where Lagonna-Band Storyteller earns its seat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Lagonna-Band Storyteller is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. Bulk rares rarely climb without a format breakout, and nothing about this card's power level suggests one is coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.