Loxodon Anchorite
Creature — Elephant Cleric
: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fifth Dawn
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #27634
Loxodon Anchorite trades a tap and two white mana to give two target creatures +0/+3 until end of turn — a reactive buff that only matters if combat is already going wrong. The cost-to-impact ratio is poor enough that nearly any static toughness booster or lifelink enabler does more work for the same slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Loxodon Anchorite is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, a four-mana 2/4 that requires an additional two-mana activation to do anything relevant is well below rate — the format moves too fast for reactive toughness bumps to matter. Pauper is the only format where budget constraints make common creatures more competitive on a relative basis, but even there, Loxodon Anchorite competes against commons with persistent board presence rather than one-shot defensive tricks. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, it simply doesn't exist as a consideration.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Loxodon Anchorite is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder filler pile. There's no scarcity driving it higher, and no spike scenario that changes that.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.