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Lotus Cobra

Creature — Snake

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$43.90
EDHREC rank
#318
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Lotus Cobra card art
Lotus Cobra turns every land drop into a mana float, which means fetchlands and landfall triggers effectively cast your next spell for free. At two mana for a 2/3, the rate is absurd — Lumra, Bellow of the Woods and Springheart Nantuko both break it outright the turn they hit the battlefield.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

75.9% of decks · synergy 0.59

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods mills lands into the graveyard and replays them, generating a cascade of landfall triggers — Lotus Cobra converts each of those into mana, letting Lumra's engine pay for itself mid-chain.

02
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

63.2% of decks · synergy 0.59

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer cares about snakes and landfall in tandem, and Lotus Cobra satisfies both — it's a snake that also bankrolls the additional land drops Aphelia wants to keep making.

03
Lord Windgrace

Lord Windgrace

68.4% of decks · synergy 0.57

Lord Windgrace recurs lands from the graveyard repeatedly, and each recurrence is a free mana from Lotus Cobra — the two together turn Windgrace's minus ability into net-positive mana generation.

04
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

66.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait draws a card on every landfall trigger, which means every land drop replaces itself and produces mana simultaneously when Lotus Cobra is in play — the combination accelerates the deck faster than almost any other two-card pair in the format.

05
Yarok, the Desecrated

Yarok, the Desecrated

63.2% of decks · synergy 0.54

Yarok, the Desecrated doubles every triggered ability that triggers when a permanent enters, which means Lotus Cobra produces two mana per land drop instead of one under Yarok — that alone justifies running it in virtually every Yarok build.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Lotus Cobra does its best work: the format's slower pace and fetch-heavy manabases let it generate mana on multiple turns, and the density of landfall commanders gives it a natural home in a wide slice of the metagame. In Legacy, it's legal but largely irrelevant — the format moves too fast for a two-mana 2/3 that doesn't affect the board immediately. Modern gives it a more plausible shell in landfall-adjacent strategies, though it rarely shows up in top-tier lists where the payoffs don't justify the slot. Pioneer is similar: legal, occasionally played, never format-defining. Lotus Cobra is a Commander card first, and the numbers reflect it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

14,401 decks
Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoZuran OrbLotus Cobra

Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoZuran OrbLotus Cobra

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite colored mana; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Scute Swarm and Tireless Provisioner both pick up pieces of what Lotus Cobra does at a fraction of the price — Provisioner generates Treasure instead of floating mana, which is slower but still converts landfall into acceleration. Neither replaces Lotus Cobra cleanly: you're trading speed and instant-speed mana for resilience and a lower buy-in, which is a real cost in any deck that wants to chain spells in response to triggers.

Price Context

Current price

$43.90 premium tier

At $43.90, Lotus Cobra sits firmly in the premium tier — you're paying for a card that has proven itself across multiple formats and years of Commander play with no signs of slowing down. It has been reprinted before and could be again, but as a staple in a high-popularity archetype it holds its value better than most cards at this price point.

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