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Luminous Broodmoth

Creature — Insect

Flying
Whenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
Price
$2.06
EDHREC rank
#1206
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Luminous Broodmoth card art
Luminous Broodmoth turns every non-flying creature death into a free recursive loop, and paired with a sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar, that loop becomes an engine that generates mana or triggers on demand. The cost is real — four mana at sorcery speed, legendary, and it does nothing the turn it lands — but the ceiling when it resolves on a board full of creatures is among the highest of any four-drop in white. Tidus, Yuna's Guardian decks include it at over 70%, which tells you everything about how the format values this effect.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

70.9% of decks · synergy 0.64

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian is built around sending creatures to the graveyard and getting value back, so Luminous Broodmoth's recursive loop slots directly into that engine — creatures die, return with flying counters, and Tidus's triggers keep firing. A 71% inclusion rate across more than 16,000 decks isn't an accident.

02

Polukranos Reborn

56.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Polukranos Reborn flips between a big green threat and a white recursion piece, and Luminous Broodmoth amplifies the white half by ensuring creatures that die to -1/-1 counters or combat come right back. The 56% inclusion rate reflects how tightly the recursion theme holds the deck together.

03
Brion Stoutarm

Brion Stoutarm

45.1% of decks · synergy 0.43

Brion Stoutarm throws creatures at opponents for damage, and Luminous Broodmoth means every creature Brion flings returns to the battlefield — turning one-shot fodder into a repeatable damage loop. At 45% inclusion, it's the recursion engine most Brion pilots lean on.

04
Teysa Karlov

Teysa Karlov

47.3% of decks · synergy 0.39

Teysa Karlov doubles death triggers, and Luminous Broodmoth generates a death trigger every time a non-flying creature returns and dies again — the two cards compound each other into a recursive avalanche. Nearly half of Teysa Karlov decks run it for exactly this reason.

05
Yuna, Grand Summoner

Yuna, Grand Summoner

45.7% of decks · synergy 0.38

Yuna, Grand Summoner floods the board with Aeon tokens and legendary creatures, giving Luminous Broodmoth a steady stream of non-flying bodies to recur. The 46% inclusion rate reflects how reliably the Moth turns Yuna's go-wide plan into a resilient, self-replenishing board state.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Luminous Broodmoth lives — four mana is the exact rate the format is built to support, and the combination of a wide creature base, sacrifice synergies, and death-trigger commanders makes its recursive effect consistently backbreaking. In Modern and Legacy, the story is different: four mana for a creature that doesn't affect the board immediately is too slow against decks that win before it generates value, and the formats offer cheaper, more reliable recursive options. Pioneer is technically legal, but the same speed problem applies — Luminous Broodmoth rarely sees competitive play there. The card's natural home is any Commander shell that generates disposable creatures and wants a recursive engine that's hard to permanently answer.

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Price Context

Current price

$2.06 cheap tier

At $2.06, Luminous Broodmoth sits in the cheap tier for what it does — a mythic-rarity engine with a 70%+ inclusion rate in its highest-synergy Commander decks. That price reflects wide availability more than low demand, and it's a straightforward pickup for any white Commander deck built around sacrifice or death triggers.

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