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Lavaleaper

Creature — Elemental

All creatures have haste.
Whenever a player taps a basic land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price
$0.92
EDHREC rank
#9005
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Lavaleaper card art
Lavaleaper is a repeatable haste enabler stapled to a mana sink — it attacks as a 4/1 trample, haste for four mana, then lets you pay more mana to give any creature haste until end of turn. Commanders that flood the board with mana and need creatures swinging immediately, like Yurlok of Scorch Thrash and Horde of Notions, get real mileage out of it; everyone else is probably looking for a more efficient rate.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

37.2% of decks · synergy 0.35

Yurlok of Scorch Thrash burns opponents with mana they can't spend, and Lavaleaper converts that surplus mana directly into haste activations — every creature you deploy on a Yurlok turn can attack the same turn it lands.

02
Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest

Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest

25.9% of decks · synergy 0.21

Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest rewards you for dealing combat damage to players, so Lavaleaper's activated haste ability lets newly cast threats join the attack immediately and keep the triggers stacking.

03
Etali, Primal Storm

Etali, Primal Storm

16.6% of decks · synergy 0.12

Etali, Primal Storm needs to connect on attack to generate value, and Lavaleaper gives any freshly cast Etali copy or recursion target haste so it doesn't sit idle waiting a full rotation.

04

Ashling, Rekindled

11.5% of decks · synergy 0.11

Ashling, Rekindled cares about creatures entering and exiting, and Lavaleaper's haste activation lets those creatures threaten combat damage the moment they arrive — useful when the whole gameplan hinges on timing.

05

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant

14.1% of decks · synergy 0.10

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant builds toward a wide, attacking board, and Lavaleaper fits cleanly as both an attacker and an on-demand haste source for whatever Clive conjures mid-combat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Lavaleaper is legal across every major format but sees essentially no play outside Commander — its activated ability is too mana-intensive to matter in faster 60-card environments where games end before you accumulate that kind of float. In Commander, it occupies a narrow niche: mana-sink haste enablers that can also attack, which matters most in decks that generate large amounts of mana in a single turn and need to convert it into pressure immediately. It's not a staple, but in the right shell it earns its slot. Oathbreaker could theoretically use it in a high-mana red strategy, though the card pool there is small enough that better options usually exist.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

52 decks
Breath of FuryLavaleaper

Breath of FuryLavaleaper

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.92 bulk tier

At $0.92, Lavaleaper is firmly bulk — cheap enough to throw into any red Commander deck that might want it without any real financial commitment. Demand is narrow enough that this price is likely a ceiling, not a floor; don't expect it to climb unless a high-profile combo featuring Lavaleaper surfaces.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.