Laquatus's Champion
Creature — Nightmare Horror
When this creature enters, target player loses 6 life.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, that player gains 6 life.
: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Torment Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25063
Laquatus's Champion drains a target opponent for 6 the moment it enters — that's a third of a player's starting life total before combat even begins. The six-mana cost and the life-gain rider on death make it a slow, fragile threat in most shells, but decks that can flicker or reanimate it repeatedly turn that ETB into a kill condition.
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 Laquatus's Champion sees meaningful play, specifically in black life-drain or reanimator shells that can abuse the ETB repeatedly with flicker or recursion effects. In Legacy and Vintage, six mana for a 6/3 with no protection is far too slow — those formats have better ways to drain life or close games outright. Oathbreaker is legal but faces the same problem: the effect is powerful, the body is not, and without a built-in way to recur it the card asks too much for what it delivers.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available in our current feed for Laquatus's Champion, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. It has never been a high-demand card, so copies typically show up in bulk rare territory — worth picking up cheaply if your reanimator or drain build wants the redundancy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.