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Llawan, Cephalid Empress

Legendary Creature — Octopus Noble

When Llawan enters, return all blue creatures your opponents control to their owners' hands.
Your opponents can't cast blue creature spells.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$2.60
EDHREC rank
#14974
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Llawan, Cephalid Empress card art
Llawan, Cephalid Empress shuts down every blue creature on the board and stops new ones from being cast — the moment she resolves, most creature-based blue strategies fold. Pair her with Painter's Servant naming blue and the lock extends to every creature in every opponent's hand, which is just a hard stop on combat.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Llawan, Cephalid Empress is a Commander card through and through — the four-player pod gives her maximum reach, since even one blue opponent makes her a live card, and multiplayer tables routinely feature two or three. In Legacy, she sees fringe play in Painter's Servant combo shells where she functions as a one-card win condition, but she's too slow and narrow for the format's main stage. Vintage has the raw power to support her, but the format's density of broken spells means a 3/3 that bounces creatures rarely makes the cut outside of highly specialized builds. She's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, or Standard.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.60 cheap tier

At $2.60, Llawan, Cephalid Empress sits firmly in the cheap tier for what is a genuine lock piece in the right shell. The price is stable — she's too narrow for casual tables but just well-known enough in combo circles to keep demand from cratering.

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