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Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus.
{T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{X}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
Innistrad
Price
$0.73
EDHREC rank
#1861
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Mikaeus, the Lunarch card art
Mikaeus, the Lunarch enters with X +1/+1 counters and can spread them to your whole team — raw board presence for any counter-based strategy. The cost is speed: he asks for mana investment up front, which makes him a natural fit in decks like Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful that recoup that investment through counter synergies, and a build-around engine in shells that exploit Crystalline Crawler's ability to cash counters back into mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Reyhan, Last of the AbzanYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

59.6% of decks · synergy 0.58

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful redistributes counters on death, turning every creature Mikaeus, the Lunarch has buffed into a potential resource rather than a loss — the two form a self-sustaining counter economy that scales every turn.

02
Nalia de'Arnise

Nalia de'Arnise

59.0% of decks · synergy 0.56

Nalia de'Arnise dumps +1/+1 counters onto creatures that connect, and Mikaeus, the Lunarch's tap ability lets her spread that accumulation across the whole board rather than letting it cluster on one attacker.

03
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill

Felisa, Fang of Silverquill

58.5% of decks · synergy 0.55

Felisa, Fang of Silverquill creates Inklings when creatures with counters die, so every creature Mikaeus, the Lunarch has touched becomes a potential token generator when removed — the synergy is structural, not incidental.

04
Shalai and Hallar

Shalai and Hallar

55.0% of decks · synergy 0.52

Shalai and Hallar deals damage equal to counters placed on creatures, so Mikaeus, the Lunarch's team-wide distribution each turn cycle converts into a repeatable, scalable damage source rather than a purely defensive buff.

05
Kyler, Sigardian Emissary

Kyler, Sigardian Emissary

61.5% of decks · synergy 0.52

Kyler, Sigardian Emissary grows whenever a Human enters and pumps all other Humans you control — Mikaeus, the Lunarch is a Human himself, so every activation feeds both halves of that loop in a Humans-tribal shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Mikaeus, the Lunarch earns his keep — the format's slower clock gives him time to accumulate value, and the multiplayer board rewards the team-wide counter distribution that would be irrelevant in a duel. In Legacy and Vintage he's legal but largely ignored; a three-mana creature that requires additional mana to threaten the board can't compete with those formats' density of interaction and faster threats. Modern has no meaningful home for him either — counter synergies exist there, but the decks that want them run more efficient payoffs. Oathbreaker is the one alternative format where he could see action as a spellbreaker support piece, though his ceiling there is lower than in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.73 bulk tier

At $0.73, Mikaeus, the Lunarch is firmly bulk — a high-synergy card with no price barrier to entry. That price reflects wide availability rather than low power; his inclusion rate across counter-themed commanders is consistently above 55%, so the supply has simply kept pace with demand.

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