Lost Days
Instant — Lesson
The owner of target creature or enchantment puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom. You create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #11462
Lost Days dumps four cards from the top of your library into your graveyard at instant speed — a four-card mill effect stapled to a cantrip for three mana. Iroh, Grand Lotus is the primary reason to run it, since loading the graveyard with instants and sorceries directly fuels his triggered ability.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Iroh, Grand Lotus
Iroh, Grand Lotus rewards you for casting instants and sorceries from the graveyard, and Lost Days does the work of finding them — milling four at instant speed means you're stocking the graveyard on your opponents' end steps and drawing into your next play at the same time.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Lost Days is legal everywhere but shows up almost exclusively in Commander, where graveyard-value engines make a four-card mill with card draw worth a slot. In competitive one-on-one formats like Modern and Pioneer, three mana to mill yourself four is too slow and too low-impact against a clock. Legacy and Vintage have faster self-mill with more broken payoffs, so Lost Days doesn't compete there either. Commander is the right home: multiplayer games go long enough that stocking the graveyard incrementally compounds, especially under commanders that convert graveyard depth into card advantage or recursion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Lost Days is firmly bulk — no barrier to picking up a copy. Bulk commons and uncommons with niche Commander homes tend to stay at this price floor, so there's no urgency either way.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Iroh, Grand Lotus
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.