Lantern Kami
Creature — Spirit
Flying
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #22933
Lantern Kami is a 1/1 flyer for one white mana — a body so small it rarely survives contact with anything meaningful. White has better one-drops at every power level, and this one earns a slot in almost no competitive list.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Lantern Kami is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper it's the most relevant context — white weenie and spirits strategies exist — but even there, a 1/1 flyer with no enters-the-battlefield effect or relevant type line struggles to justify a slot over Spectral Bears or Doomed Traveler. In Commander, a 1/1 with no text does nothing at the table scale the format demands. Legacy and Vintage have cards so far above this power band that Lantern Kami never registers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Lantern Kami is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and goes nowhere. That price accurately reflects demand, and there's no realistic catalyst to move it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.