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Leyline Tyrant

Creature — Dragon

Flying
You don't lose unspent red mana as steps and phases end.
When this creature dies, you may pay any amount of {R}. When you do, it deals that much damage to any target.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Zendikar Rising Promos
Price
$2.98
EDHREC rank
#2411
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Leyline Tyrant card art
Leyline Tyrant lets you bank unspent red mana across turns, then cash it in as a massive damage burst — the ceiling is a one-shot kill with something like Sozin's Comet off a single untap. The cost is a four-mana 4/4 that does nothing until you have excess mana to store, which makes it a liability in slow starts but an absolute engine in decks built around Fire Lord Zuko or any commander that floods the board with red.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Fire Lord Zuko

Fire Lord Zuko

58.7% of decks · synergy 0.57

Fire Lord Zuko's ability to generate and spend mana aggressively makes Leyline Tyrant the obvious payoff — every red mana Fire Lord Zuko produces that doesn't get spent becomes stored damage waiting to close a game.

03
Neheb, the Eternal

Neheb, the Eternal

55.9% of decks · synergy 0.49

Neheb, the Eternal prints red mana in post-combat, and Leyline Tyrant means every pip Neheb, the Eternal generates that you can't spend immediately rolls over — stacking reserves across multiple combat phases until you have enough to kill someone outright.

04
Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

49.6% of decks · synergy 0.47

Yurlok of Scorch Thrash forces mana burn on opponents, and Leyline Tyrant insulates you from the symmetry by letting you bank your own overflow rather than take the damage — so you get the punishment and the safety valve.

05
Lathliss, Dragon Queen

Lathliss, Dragon Queen

49.0% of decks · synergy 0.42

Lathliss, Dragon Queen floods the board with dragon tokens that need haste or combat to matter, and Leyline Tyrant gives the deck a non-combat kill condition by hoarding mana from big turns and firing it as direct damage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Leyline Tyrant actually lives — the long game, the big-mana commanders, and the multi-turn buildup all line up perfectly with what it does. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but functionally a curiosity; red burn decks don't want a four-mana 4/4 that requires setup, and combo decks that want a mana sink have faster options. Legacy is the same story: the redundancy and speed of that format leave no room for a creature that asks you to untap with it. Leyline Tyrant is a Commander card wearing a constructed-legal label.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.98 cheap tier

At $2.98, Leyline Tyrant is cheap for how much work it does in the right shell — the price reflects its narrow home rather than its ceiling. It's the kind of card that stays in this tier until a breakout commander pushes demand, so if you're in a red mana-flood deck, buy it now and don't think twice.

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