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Lavamancer's Skill

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature."
As long as enchanted creature is a Wizard, it has "{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to target creature."

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Onslaught
Price
$0.17
EDHREC rank
#22616
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Lavamancer's Skill card art
Lavamancer's Skill turns any creature with tap into a repeatable ping engine — attach it to a creature with an untap outlet and you're dealing 2 damage per activation without ever casting a spell. Thornbite Staff does similar work but untaps automatically on death; Lavamancer's Skill demands you supply the untap yourself, which is the entire cost of admission.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Lavamancer's Skill is a niche piece in dedicated tap-effect builds — it asks for an untap engine to shine, but in the right shell it can machine-gun a table's worth of small creatures off the board. Pauper is actually its most competitive home, where the card pool is shallow enough that repeatable pinging on a common aura clears meaningful threats. Legacy and Vintage allow it but ignore it — the formats move too fast for a two-mana setup piece with no immediate impact. Lavamancer's Skill is effectively a Commander and Pauper card, full stop.

Key Combos

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Bruce Banner // The Incredible HulkLavamancer's Skill

Bruce Banner // The Incredible HulkLavamancer's Skill

Infinite combat phases; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature

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Price Context

Current price

$0.17 bulk tier

At $0.17, Lavamancer's Skill is pure bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a real role in the right deck. That price is stable; demand is narrow enough that there's no spike risk, and it's not scarce enough for buyout pressure.

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