Magus Lucea Kane
Legendary Creature — Human Tyranid Wizard
Spiritual Leader — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Psychic Stimulus — 
: Add 
. When you next cast a spell with 
in its mana cost or activate an ability with in its activation cost this turn, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #6572
Magus Lucea Kane doubles the most powerful X-spells and typal payoffs in the game while stapling a free mana ability and a draw engine onto a single four-mana body — the output-to-cost ratio is absurd. The cost is real though: Ioreth of the Healing House it isn't, and Kane dies to every removal spell your opponents packed for The Swarmlord before you untap.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Swarmlord
The Swarmlord's triggered abilities scale directly off Magus Lucea Kane's copy effect — doubling X on a kicked Banefire or a Torment of Hailfire is already backbreaking, and the free tap ability accelerates the +1/+1 counter synergies that make The Swarmlord's combat damage relevant in the first place.
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 |
Magus Lucea Kane is a Commander card through and through — the copy-spell-with-X ability and the tap-for-mana engine both reward long games with access to your full library, which is exactly what 100-card singleton provides. In Legacy and Vintage, where Kane is technically legal, the four-mana cost and legendary status mean it never sees competitive play; those formats close games before the engine comes online. Commander is where Magus Lucea Kane earns every slot, either as the commander generating its own value or as a 99-card piece in any Temur or four-color shell that wants to cast expensive X-spells repeatedly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ioreth of the Healing HouseSaryth, the Viper's FangMagus Lucea Kane
Infinite mana legendary creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of legendary creatures you control
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Magus Lucea KaneFreed from the RealChromatic Orrery
Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite copies of abilities with {X} in their cost; Infinite copies of spells with {X} in their cost
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Magus Lucea KaneAshaya, Soul of the WildMagus of the Candelabra
Infinite colorless mana; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite green mana; Infinite untap of nontoken creatures you control; Infinite copies of abilities with {X} in their cost; Infinite copies of spells with {X} in their cost; Infinite mana nontoken creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of lands you control
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Magus Lucea KanePemmin's AuraChromatic Orrery
Infinite colored mana; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite copies of abilities with {X} in their cost; Infinite copies of spells with {X} in their cost
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Magus Lucea KaneUmbral MantleMana Reflection
Infinite colorless mana; Infinite copies of abilities with {X} in their cost; Infinite copies of spells with {X} in their cost; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
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Current price
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.