Lotus Guardian
Artifact Creature — Dragon
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.54
- EDHREC rank
- #24710
Lotus Guardian lands as a 4/4 flying artifact creature that taps for one mana of any color — real mana production stapled to a relevant body. Seven mana is the honest cost of that package, and in most Commander shells that's too steep when two-mana rocks exist, but Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy doubles the output and makes the math suddenly compelling.
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 |
Lotus Guardian is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where the conversation ends — it's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper. In practice, Lotus Guardian is a Commander card: the format's slower clock and singleton construction give a seven-mana mana-producer room to breathe, especially in artifact-matters or mana-sink strategies. Legacy and Vintage both have access to it, but those formats demand efficiency that a seven-drop rainbow rock simply cannot deliver.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Kinnan, Bonder ProdigyLotus GuardianFreed from the Real
Infinite colored mana
View on Commander Spellbook ↗
Kinnan, Bonder ProdigyLotus GuardianPemmin's Aura
Infinite colored mana
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.54 bulk tier
At $0.54, Lotus Guardian sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire, unlikely to move. Demand is too narrow and supply too abundant for the price to climb, so pick it up cheap if the build calls for it and don't expect it to appreciate.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.