Loxodon Restorer
Creature — Elephant Cleric
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #24924
Loxodon Restorer enters the battlefield and immediately puts 4 life on the board — split among any number of targets, which is the entire sales pitch. Five mana for a 3/3 that gains 4 life is a bad rate in any competitive context, and life gain without a payoff is not a game plan.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Loxodon Restorer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Commander, it sees fringe play in dedicated life-gain decks helmed by commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Dina, Soul Steeper, where every point of life gain triggers a payoff — even then, five mana for 4 life is near the bottom of the barrel. In Pauper, where commons compete on raw efficiency, it has no real role. Anywhere else, it doesn't come up.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Loxodon Restorer is deep bulk — buy it out of a bulk bin if a life-gain deck needs the last slot filled on zero budget. There is no price floor to speak of, and no condition under which this appreciates.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.