Lambholt Raconteur // Lambholt Ravager
Creature — Human Werewolf // Creature — Werewolf
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #16143
Lambholt Raconteur // Lambholt Ravager flips into a 4/4 trampler that deals damage equal to the spells you've cast this turn — in a spell-slinging deck, that's a lethal swing out of nowhere. The cost is a four-mana 2/2 on the front side that only flips if you've cast four or more instant or sorcery spells in a turn, which means it sits inert until you have the engine running.
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 |
In Commander, Lambholt Raconteur // Lambholt Ravager is a niche payoff for dedicated spellslinger builds — it does nothing until you've assembled the engine, but in the right shell the Ravager side ends games on the spot. Competitive non-Commander formats have no real interest in it: Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage all have faster, more consistent ways to convert a high spell count into damage, and a four-mana 2/2 with a conditional flip doesn't clear the bar in any of them. Oathbreaker is the one exception worth noting — a spells-matter planeswalker as commander can reach the flip threshold more reliably in a 60-card singleton context, making Lambholt Ravager a reasonable inclusion there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Lambholt Raconteur // Lambholt Ravager is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the effect. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb without a format breakout, and nothing on the horizon suggests this one is due for a reappraisal.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.