Lullmage's Familiar
Creature — Beast
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Whenever you cast a kicked spell, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #19744
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
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
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.
Key Combos
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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.