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Nyx Lotus

Legendary Artifact

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Theros Beyond Death Promos
Price
$5.67
EDHREC rank
#1636
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Nyx Lotus card art
Nyx Lotus can produce a massive burst of colored mana in mono-color or heavily skewed decks, and commanders like Clive, Ifrit's Dominant that care about devotion turn it into a engine piece rather than just an accelerant. The cost is real — it enters tapped, costs four to cast, and does nothing in a multicolor shell — but in the right deck, pairing it with Filigree Sages to untap it repeatedly makes the ceiling absurd.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant

45.9% of decks · synergy 0.42

Clive, Ifrit's Dominant is mono-red and wants as many red pips on the board as possible, which makes Nyx Lotus tap for enormous amounts of mana almost immediately after landing. The devotion engine the deck is already building does double duty, powering both Clive's payoffs and the Lotus.

02
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.15

Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer runs in a black-heavy shell where devotion to black accumulates fast, letting Nyx Lotus regularly tap for five or more mana. That burst of black mana feeds exactly the kind of expensive, high-impact spells the archetype wants to resolve ahead of schedule.

03

Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.15

Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh builds a mono-red board that racks up devotion naturally, giving Nyx Lotus a reliable payoff even in the mid-game. Red creature-heavy strategies spike devotion counts high enough that the Lotus frequently matches or beats Gilded Lotus on raw output.

04
Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

17.8% of decks · synergy 0.12

Valgavoth, Terror Eater's mono-black shell accumulates black pips across a wide creature and enchantment base, making Nyx Lotus a high-yield rock by the time it matters. The ability to convert devotion into a mana advantage lines up cleanly with the expensive threats Valgavoth wants to deploy.

05
Ardyn, the Usurper

Ardyn, the Usurper

18.6% of decks · synergy 0.12

Ardyn, the Usurper operates in a black-heavy shell where devotion climbs steeply, and Nyx Lotus converts that incidental board presence into a meaningful mana advantage. Decks built around Ardyn often want to cast multiple spells in a turn, and a devotion-based rock can supply the burst needed to do exactly that.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Nyx Lotus is a Commander card, full stop — the 99-card singleton format is where devotion counts reach the critical mass needed to make it worthwhile, and multiplayer games give it time to untap and produce mana repeatedly. In competitive Commander it's fringe at best, since fast mana and low curves make a four-mana tapped rock too slow, but in battlecruiser mono-color builds it earns its slot easily. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but irrelevant — constructed formats with tighter curves and more efficient ramp have no interest in a Nyx Lotus that enters tapped and requires a specific board state to outperform a basic land. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it could occasionally see play, particularly in mono-color signatures that build high devotion, but the player base is small enough that data there is sparse.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Extraplanar Lens and Nyx Lotus occupy different niches — the Lens doubles mana from basics and costs under $3, making it the cleaner budget swap for mono-color decks that aren't devotion-focused. Caged Sun does a similar job for around $3 and also pumps your creatures, trading the raw ceiling of Nyx Lotus for consistency that doesn't depend on how many pips are on the battlefield.

Price Context

Current price

$5.67 mid tier

At $5.67, Nyx Lotus sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that it's not a budget barrier for most players. It's a casual staple with a narrow application, so the price is unlikely to move dramatically in either direction.

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