Quickening Licid
Creature — Licid
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: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay to end this effect.
Enchanted creature has first strike.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #29053
Quickening Licid turns any creature you control into a haste granter — attach it, untap, swing — but the two-mana activation cost and the fragility of the Licid subtype mean a single removal spell ends the effect and strands the card. It earns a slot only in decks that specifically abuse repeatable haste enablers on a stick.
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 |
Quickening Licid is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but practically it only sees play in Commander, where the 100-card singleton format rewards niche tribal and combo pieces that would never cut it in a 60-card environment. In Legacy and Vintage, a two-mana activation that requires the creature to tap just to grant haste to itself loses to every other speed option available, so Quickening Licid never appears there. In Commander, it fits narrowest in Licid-tribal or creature-equipment-adjacent builds where the bounce-back clause matters — everywhere else, a Swiftfoot Boots does the job for less.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Quickening Licid is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar box, not a singles order. Demand is too narrow to expect any price movement, and it will stay in this tier unless a future Licid-synergy card pushes the tribe into relevance.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.