Lorehold, the Historian
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Flying, haste
Each instant and sorcery card in your hand has miracle 
. (You may cast a card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $18.07
- EDHREC rank
- #10170
Lorehold, the Historian enters with a backlog of spells to exile from graveyards and lets you cast them for free — that's a repeatable card-advantage engine stapled to a body, not a one-shot effect. The cost is five mana and the setup requirement of a stocked graveyard, but in the right shell that setup cost is zero.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Lorehold, the Historian does its best work — graveyard filling is ambient in a format full of self-mill, looting, and fetchlands, and the political angle of exiling opponents' yards can matter in longer games. Constructed formats are a harder sell: five mana is a liability in Modern and Pioneer, where the graveyard interaction space is crowded with faster, cheaper options. Standard is the most plausible non-Commander home if a graveyard-value shell exists in the meta, but Lorehold still competes for the top of a curve that usually wants to close games, not generate incremental value. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the power bar is simply too high.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Lorehold, the Historian occupies a specific niche — a repeatable, on-board exile-and-cast effect — and most cheaper alternatives only hit it partially. Felix Five-Boots and Mimic Vat both generate value from graveyards at a lower price point, but neither matches Lorehold's reach across all graveyards at the table. If the draw is primarily the exile-opponent's-graveyard angle, Bojuka Bog and Soul-Guide Lantern cover that function for pennies with no dependency on a five-mana body.
Price Context
Current price
$18.07 mid tier
At $18.07, Lorehold, the Historian sits in mid-tier pricing — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, not a budget staple. It's a new card, so the price reflects early demand; whether it holds depends on how many Commander decks actually want a five-mana graveyard-value engine over cheaper alternatives.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.