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Lotus Petal

Artifact

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

CMC
0
Mana cost
{0}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Tempest Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#118
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Lotus Petal card art
Lotus Petal is a free spell that converts itself into any color of mana — zero cost to cast, one mana out, and it fuels degenerate opening sequences in any shell that wants to race to its combo. In cEDH, it's a staple because Underworld Breach loops and fast Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver starts both need that extra mana on turn one to operate ahead of schedule.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Lotus Petal is legal in Commander, Legacy, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, restricted in Vintage, and banned outright from Modern and Pioneer. The Vintage restriction says everything: in a format with no singleton rule, multiple copies in an opening hand are genuinely broken. Commander gives it a pass because you only ever have one, and a single mana that disappears the moment you use it simply isn't backbreaking in a 100-card, four-player game. Legacy uses it as a combo enabler in glass-cannon decks, but the inherent card disadvantage keeps it honest in fair contexts.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dargo, the ShipwreckerTymna the Weaver

Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver

90.9% of decks · synergy 0.85

Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver is the highest-synergy home for Lotus Petal because sacrificing the Petal for mana also counts toward reducing Dargo's cost — every free artifact you sacrifice makes Dargo cheaper, often landing him on turn one or two as a massive attacker.

02
Rograkh, Son of RohgahhSilas Renn, Seeker Adept

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

94.9% of decks · synergy 0.84

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept runs Lotus Petal because Rograkh is a zero-cost commander, and the Petal provides the colored mana needed to cast supporting pieces before any lands are in play — the whole deck is built around going wide on turn one.

03
Thrasios, Triton HeroYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

76.5% of decks · synergy 0.72

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful uses Lotus Petal to power out the commanders ahead of curve and fuel the early storm of cheap spells that builds toward a winning combo line through Thrasios's activated ability.

04
Tevesh Szat, Doom of FoolsThrasios, Triton Hero

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero

76.0% of decks · synergy 0.67

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero is a four-color cEDH shell that needs every pip of fast mana available, and Lotus Petal's ability to produce any color makes it a natural fit for smoothing out a demanding mana base on the critical early turns.

05
Malcolm, Keen-Eyed NavigatorVial Smasher the Fierce

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce

75.3% of decks · synergy 0.65

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce wants to get both commanders into play as early as possible, and Lotus Petal is the kind of zero-cost accelerant that makes a turn-two Vial Smasher realistic and threatens damage before opponents can establish interaction.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

10,088 decks
Displacer KittenEternal WitnessLotus PetalSnap

Displacer KittenEternal WitnessLotus PetalSnap

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite colored mana; Return all creatures you don't control to their owner's hand; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Lotus Petal isn't available in our system, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the most accurate number. Historically it sits in the $3–$8 range depending on printing, which is cheap for a cEDH staple with this many high-synergy homes.

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