Loxodon Mender
Creature — Elephant Cleric
, 
: Regenerate target artifact.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29260
Loxodon Mender costs five mana to gain you life equal to your life total — a one-time effect stapled to a 3/3 body that does nothing else. Five-mana sorcery-speed life doubling with no recurrence is not a competitive rate in any format where life gain matters.
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 Mender is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, five mana for a one-time life boost is too slow and too fragile — Oloro, Ageless Ascetic and Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim decks want engines that repeat, not single-use spells stapled to a vanilla body. In Pauper, where commons actually compete, the rate is simply too poor against aggressive decks that will ignore your life total and kill you with burn anyway. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana do-nothing creature.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Loxodon Mender sits firmly in bulk — the price reflects the demand, which is nearly nonexistent. Don't expect this to move; it's a trade-binder filler card that has been bulk since the day it was printed.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.