MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, it gains skulk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater attacks you, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3598
MacCready, Lamplight Mayor turns every token you make into a card — a continuous draw engine stapled to a body that gets bigger as your board does. The cost is real: you need creatures to already be dying or tokens entering consistently, which means MacCready, Lamplight Mayor underperforms in a vacuum, but The Celestial Toymaker and similar token-flood commanders make that condition trivially easy to meet.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker generates a relentless stream of token creatures, and MacCready, Lamplight Mayor converts that stream directly into cards — the two cards draw off each other's output in a way that makes cutting either feel wrong.
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
Caesar, Legion's Emperor rewards attacking with sacrifice fodder, and MacCready, Lamplight Mayor ensures that fodder never runs out by drawing into more threats every time a token enters the battlefield.
Felothar the Steadfast
Felothar the Steadfast wants a wide board of small creatures to maximize its own effects, and MacCready, Lamplight Mayor slots in as the draw engine that keeps the hand full while the board stays populated.
Commissar Severina Raine
Commissar Severina Raine drains opponents whenever a creature you control dies, and MacCready, Lamplight Mayor pairs with that sacrifice loop by making sure you never run out of tokens to feed it.
Doran, the Siege Tower
Doran, the Siege Tower cares about toughness over power, and MacCready, Lamplight Mayor's toughness-scaling body grows into a meaningful attacker and blocker under Doran while still providing its draw trigger on token-generating turns.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where MacCready, Lamplight Mayor does its best work — 100-card singleton games go long enough for a repeating draw trigger to generate serious value, and the token strategies that fuel it are everywhere in the format. Legacy and Vintage are both legal homes, but neither format wants a four-mana creature that requires board setup to generate advantage when faster options exist. Oathbreaker is the other realistic home: spell-heavy token builds can set up quickly enough that MacCready, Lamplight Mayor hits at the right moment to snowball.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for MacCready, Lamplight Mayor isn't available in the current dataset, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live number. Given its Commander adoption rate in token-heavy builds, it's worth picking up sooner rather than later if you're building around the effect.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.