Lotusguard Disciple
Creature — Bird Cleric
Flying
When this creature enters, target creature or Vehicle gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #18816
Lotusguard Disciple enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself with a card draw trigger whenever you gain life, stapling a relevant payoff onto a body that costs next to nothing to evaluate. At one mana, the floor is low enough that including it in any life-gain shell is almost free.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Lotusguard Disciple slots cleanly into any life-gain build — Oloro, Ageless Ascetic, Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim, or any soul sisters shell that generates life in bulk will trigger it repeatedly in a single turn cycle. Competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Pioneer have access to faster, more redundant life-gain payoffs, so Lotusguard Disciple rarely makes the cut there. Pauper is its most interesting non-Commander home, where one-mana commons that generate incremental card advantage are genuinely scarce and the life-gain archetype is viable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Lotusguard Disciple is deep bulk — buy a playset without thinking about it. Bulk commons with narrow synergy archetypes rarely climb, so treat this as a throw-in, not a pickup for trade value.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.