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Lotus Bloom

Artifact

Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Time Spiral Remastered
Price
$4.15
EDHREC rank
#3912
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Lotus Bloom card art
Lotus Bloom puts three colorless mana on the battlefield for free — the catch is a three-turn suspend delay that makes it a setup piece rather than an emergency button. In Tameshi, Reality Architect decks, that delay collapses entirely, turning Lotus Bloom into a repeatable mana engine rather than a once-per-game burst.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tameshi, Reality Architect

Tameshi, Reality Architect

75.8% of decks · synergy 0.75

Tameshi, Reality Architect can return Lotus Bloom from the battlefield to hand and replay it with suspend, effectively resetting the bloom cycle for repeated bursts of three mana — 76% of Tameshi decks run it for exactly this loop.

02
The Tenth DoctorRose Tyler

The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler

25.8% of decks · synergy 0.25

The Tenth Doctor // Rose Tyler triggers off suspend cards entering the stack, and Lotus Bloom's three-counter suspend makes it a reliable adventure-style trigger that also happens to generate a Black Lotus impression when it resolves.

03
Fblthp, Lost on the Range

Fblthp, Lost on the Range

18.1% of decks · synergy 0.17

Fblthp, Lost on the Range can topdeck and cast cards with suspend directly, meaning Lotus Bloom gets placed into suspension for free off a Fblthp activation — skipping the casting step entirely.

04
Osgir, the Reconstructor

Osgir, the Reconstructor

16.4% of decks · synergy 0.16

Osgir, the Reconstructor can exile Lotus Bloom from the graveyard and create copies of it as an artifact, effectively generating multiple suspended blooms and stacking free mana across future turns.

05
Jhoira of the Ghitu

Jhoira of the Ghitu

12.6% of decks · synergy 0.12

Jhoira of the Ghitu suspends spells for two generic mana, and Lotus Bloom already suspends itself for free — in that deck it's pure upside, a zero-cost threat that rewards the patience Jhoira builds the game around.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Lotus Bloom earns its slot in suspend-matters, artifact-recursion, and fast-combo shells — the three-turn delay is a real cost, but decks that can cheat it or reset it turn it into one of the strongest mana pieces available at any price. In Modern, it sees play in specific storm and Through the Breach shells that can either accelerate around the suspend or pair it with As Foretold to cast it for free immediately. Legacy and Vintage have access to Black Lotus itself, so Lotus Bloom is a fringe pick there at best, showing up only in decks that specifically reward suspend or artifact synergies. Pioneer and Standard have never seen it, and Pauper doesn't either — it's a rare that's always lived in the constructed formats with the deepest combo ecosystems.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.15 cheap tier

At $4.15, Lotus Bloom sits in genuinely budget territory for a card that mimics Black Lotus in the right shell. It's a staple in enough Commander archetypes — Tameshi, Osgir, Jhoira — that demand stays stable, so this is a safe pickup without any expectation of volatility in either direction.

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