Madame Vastra
Legendary Creature — Lizard Detective
Partner with Jenny Flint (When this creature enters, target player may put Jenny Flint into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Madame Vastra must be blocked if able.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Madame Vastra this turn dies, create a Clue token and a Food token.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #19015
Madame Vastra turns every crime you commit into a scry-and-draw trigger, which makes her a card-advantage engine in any shell running instants, removal, or discard effects. The cost is a four-mana 3/3 with no built-in protection — she dies to anything and needs a critical mass of crime enablers to pay off.
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 Madame Vastra belongs — the 100-card singleton format naturally loads a deck with removal, counterspells, and discard spells that all qualify as crimes, giving her repeated scry-draw value across a long game. Legacy and Vintage are both legal formats for her, but a 4-mana creature that draws cards incrementally has no realistic home in either format's threat landscape. She's locked out of Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper entirely. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home if you're pairing her with a crime-heavy planeswalker, though the 60-card constraint makes the critical mass harder to assemble than in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Madame Vastra is deep bulk — a negligible pickup that adds zero financial risk to any build. Bulk rares with narrow tribal or niche-mechanic hooks rarely climb unless a new card pushes the archetype into relevance, so treat this as a throw-in rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.