Prakhata Pillar-Bug
Artifact Creature — Insect
: This creature gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaladesh Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #26288
Prakhata Pillar-Bug is a three-mana 2/3 insect that gains you 2 life when it enters and another 2 when it dies — modest lifegain stapled to a forgettable body. It asks too much for too little; there are cheaper, more impactful ways to pad your life total in almost every context.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Prakhata Pillar-Bug is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing genuine play in essentially none of them. In Commander, the lifegain trigger is too small to matter at a table of 40-life opponents, and the body doesn't threaten anything. Pauper is the one format where incremental life and a relevant creature type could theoretically matter, but even there the Bug competes against a deep pool of efficient commons. Across constructed formats, three mana for a 2/3 with no immediate board impact is simply not competitive.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Prakhata Pillar-Bug isn't currently available, but as a bulk common with no competitive application, it almost certainly sits at or near $0.01. Pick it up if an insect or lifegain theme specifically calls for it — otherwise there's no financial consideration here worth weighing.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.