Lullmage's Familiar

Creature — Beast

{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
Whenever you cast a kicked spell, you gain 2 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Zendikar Rising
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#19744
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Lullmage's Familiar card art
Lullmage's Familiar resets your hand size every upkeep and taxes your opponents' spells whenever you're holding more cards than they are — two lines of text that pull in the same direction. Three mana for a 2/3 that does both is a clean rate.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where Lullmage's Familiar does its best work — multiplayer tables make the hand-size disparity easier to maintain, and the upkeep refill compounds draw-heavy strategies over a long game. In Modern and Legacy, a 2/3 for three mana with a conditional tax isn't competing for slots in decks that have faster, more reliable disruptive options. Pioneer offers slightly more room but still lacks a shell that wants this effect badly enough to run a three-mana creature for it. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's appeal at a smaller scale — if your planeswalker generates card advantage, the Familiar's tax can become a real obstacle for opponents.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Lullmage's Familiar is deep bulk — no financial risk whatsoever to testing it. Bulk rares with narrow Commander applications rarely climb unless they find a breakout combo, so treat this as a throw-in rather than a spec.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.