Loxodon Lifechanter
Creature — Elephant Cleric
When this creature enters, you may have your life total become the total toughness of creatures you control.
: This creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is your life total.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #18085
Loxodon Lifechanter enters as a creature whose power and toughness equal your life total — in a life-gain deck, that's routinely a 40/40 or larger on the spot. Six mana is the honest cost of that payoff, and unlike Mayael's Aria, it wins the game in combat rather than by condition-checking, which makes it faster when you're already ahead on life.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Loxodon Lifechanter is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer life totals and life-gain synergy decks that make it threatening simply don't exist at the same scale in other formats. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but irrelevant: six mana for a vanilla-ish creature is nowhere near competitive speed, and those formats don't run the support structures that make a life-total-sized beater worth slotting. Commander is the one format where starting at 40 life, gaining incidentally off your commander's text, and fielding a creature that matches that total is a genuine game plan rather than a fantasy.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Loxodon Lifechanter is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. That price is stable because demand is narrow; it does exactly one thing, and the decks that want it already have copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Mayael's Aria
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.