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Radiant Lotus

Artifact

{T}, Sacrifice one or more artifacts: Choose a color. Target player adds three mana of the chosen color for each artifact sacrificed this way.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
Aetherdrift
Price
$1.83
EDHREC rank
#6084
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Radiant Lotus card art
Radiant Lotus enters tapped and produces one mana of any color — the kind of effect that looks like a rainbow Sol Ring until you remember the tempo cost. Jaws, Relentless Predator and artifact-recursion shells like Scrap Trawler are the reasons to bother, because replaying a tapped mana rock is a lot more interesting than playing it once.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jaws, Relentless Predator

Jaws, Relentless Predator

29.1% of decks · synergy 0.28

Jaws, Relentless Predator triggers off artifacts entering and leaving the battlefield, which turns every time Radiant Lotus gets sacrificed or bounced into a free ride — Radiant Lotus isn't just fixing mana here, it's feeding the engine.

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

Radiant Lotus is legal everywhere from Standard to Vintage, but the competitive formats don't want it — one mana of any color from a tapped artifact is far too slow when the format clock is measured in turns two and three. Commander is where it actually belongs: singletons reward color fixing, the game goes long enough that entering tapped matters less, and graveyard or sacrifice synergies can make the card pull well above its weight. In Oathbreaker the same logic applies at a smaller table, though the faster average clock makes the enters-tapped clause sting a little more.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.83 cheap tier

At $1.83, Radiant Lotus sits squarely in the budget tier — low enough to slot in without a second thought for any Commander deck that wants it. Demand is unlikely to push the price significantly; it's a niche role-player rather than a staple, so expect it to stay affordable.

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