Is Lure good in Commander?

Lure

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

CMC: 3
Mana cost
Color identity: G
Rarity: uncommon
Set: 30th Anniversary Edition
Price: $7.08
EDHREC rank: #6575

Lure forces every creature an opponent controls to block the enchanted creature — in a single combat step, it clears the board of blockers or drains the opponent's entire team. At three mana for a green aura, it's a cheap enabler that slots naturally into commanders like General Marhault Elsdragon and Altanak, the Thrice-Called, both of which are built to reward or punish exactly that kind of forced engagement.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

General Marhault Elsdragon

75.6% of decks · synergy 0.74

General Marhault Elsdragon deals damage equal to his power to all blocking creatures, so Lure turns a single swing into a one-sided board wipe — every creature that blocks eats that damage simultaneously.

Anzrag, the Quake-Mole

55.6% of decks · synergy 0.54

Anzrag, the Quake-Mole untaps and gets to attack again whenever a creature fails to block it, but Lure flips the script: slap it on any large attacker and every blocker must engage, guaranteeing Anzrag and the rest of your team connect through an empty defense.

Toski, Bearer of Secrets

35.9% of decks · synergy 0.34

Toski, Bearer of Secrets draws a card for every creature that deals combat damage to a player, so Lure clears the path — if every blocker is occupied stopping the Lure-enchanted creature, Toski and your other attackers walk through for free cards.

Maarika, Brutal Gladiator

24.5% of decks · synergy 0.24

Maarika, Brutal Gladiator gets first strike and trample whenever a creature dies in combat, so stacking Lure on her guarantees every blocker the opponent has dies to her, triggering her keywords and converting a single attack into a massacre.

Thrun, Breaker of Silence

26.3% of decks · synergy 0.24

Thrun, Breaker of Silence can't be countered or targeted by opponents, which means Lure on Thrun is an unanswerable combination — opponents can't remove Lure, and they must throw their entire team in front of an indestructible creature they can never kill.

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	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Lure earns its keep, slotting into any green deck that wants to punch through boards or trigger combat-damage payoffs repeatedly. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively invisible — three mana for an aura that doesn't affect the board state immediately is far too slow against the format's interaction density. Modern is the same story: green has better tools and faster clocks, and enchanting a creature with a target painted on it rarely survives long enough to matter. Lure's value lives entirely in the multiplayer combat environment where opponents have large standing armies and the forced-block text can drain multiple players' resources in a single swing.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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