Lothlórien Blade
Artifact — Equipment
Whenever equipped creature attacks, it deals damage equal to its power to target creature defending player controls.
Equip Elf 
Equip 
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Price
- $1.35
- EDHREC rank
- #9177
Lothlórien Blade lands as a +1/+1 counter, grants trample and vigilance on equip, and replaces itself with a scry when the equipped creature deals combat damage — all for two mana to cast and one to equip. In any deck that cares about +1/+1 counters or combat triggers, this is an auto-include; Galadriel, Elven-Queen in particular turns the scry into a card draw engine with almost no setup.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Galadriel, Elven-Queen
Galadriel, Elven-Queen draws a card whenever you scry, so the combat-damage trigger on Lothlórien Blade stops being a minor bonus and becomes a repeatable draw engine stapled to an equipment you were already happy to play.
Elrond, Master of Healing
Elrond, Master of Healing cares about +1/+1 counters entering the battlefield, so the counter Lothlórien Blade drops on cast immediately fuels his lifegain and Ring-tempting triggers before you've even equipped anything.
Legolas, Master Archer
Legolas, Master Archer wants to deal combat damage as often and to as many things as possible, and Lothlórien Blade's trample ensures excess damage pushes through blockers while the scry trigger keeps the hand topped up.
Galadriel, Light of Valinor
Galadriel, Light of Valinor rewards scrying and the Ring tempting you, so the repeated scry triggers from Lothlórien Blade feed both her card-quality engine and the Ring's escalating benefits across a long game.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Lothlórien Blade does its real work — the scry-on-damage trigger compounds over a long game, and the counter it drops on cast synergizes with the counters-matter strategies common in Middle-earth builds. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but equipment that doesn't provide immediate board protection rarely sees play in formats where the game ends on turn two or three. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card-adjacent format where the card is legal and the slower pace lets the combat triggers actually fire, though the competition from more powerful equipment is stiff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.35 cheap tier
At $1.35, Lothlórien Blade sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to throw into any Elf or counters deck without a second thought. Prices on set-specific role-players like this tend to flatten out rather than climb, so buy it for the effect, not the speculation.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Galadriel, Elven-Queen
- Elrond, Master of Healing
- Legolas, Master Archer
- Galadriel, Light of Valinor
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.