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Noctis, Prince of Lucis

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

Lifelink
You may cast artifact spells from your graveyard by paying 3 life in addition to paying their other costs. If you cast a spell this way, that artifact enters with a finality counter on it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{W}{U}{B}
Color identity
BUW
Rarity
rare
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#8666
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Noctis, Prince of Lucis card art
Noctis, Prince of Lucis lands and immediately starts converting spellcasting into life gain, which feeds payoffs like Aetherflux Reservoir without requiring any additional setup. The cost is that his full ceiling lives inside Noctis, Heir Apparent builds — outside of that shell, the effect is solid but not exceptional.

Best Commanders

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Noctis, Heir Apparent

Noctis, Heir Apparent

51.6% of decks · synergy 0.50

Noctis, Heir Apparent is purpose-built around the Prince — Noctis, Prince of Lucis slots in as a core life-gain engine that directly fuels the storm-style and lifegain payoffs the deck is trying to assemble.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the natural home for Noctis, Prince of Lucis — 100-card singleton gives him enough spell volume to make the life-gain accumulation meaningful, and multiplayer games run long enough to cash it in. In 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Standard he's legal but faces real competition from dedicated lifegain pieces that either gain more life or come with a body that does something else when the engine sputters. Legacy and Vintage have the raw speed to ignore him entirely. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home if you pair him with a planeswalker that rewards spell-dense lines.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Noctis, Prince of Lucis sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying almost nothing for a card with genuine Commander applications. Bulk rares with a focused spike audience tend to stay flat unless demand concentrates, so don't expect movement, but at this price there's no reason not to pick up copies.

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