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Reito Lantern

Artifact

{3}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Conspiracy
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#14870
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Reito Lantern card art
Reito Lantern lets you redirect any card from an opponent's graveyard to the bottom of their library — or your own — for two mana at instant speed, and that effect is repeatable every turn you can pay the activation. It's a niche card, but in decks built around library order like River Song or graveyard recursion loops like Grenzo, Dungeon Warden, that repetition is the whole point.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
River Song

River Song

40.1% of decks · synergy 0.40

River Song cares deeply about the order cards enter the library, and Reito Lantern gives her a repeatable way to stack the bottom of any library at instant speed — fueling her 'bottom of library' synergies while doubling as soft graveyard hate against opponents.

02
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

20.9% of decks · synergy 0.21

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden mills from the bottom, so Reito Lantern's ability to place specific cards there on demand effectively lets you select what Grenzo flips — turning a random mill ability into a controlled recursion engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Reito Lantern is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is too slow and too narrow against the graveyard strategies that dominate those formats — dedicated hate like Rest in Peace or Leyline of the Void costs less and does more. Commander is where Reito Lantern earns its slot, specifically in decks that actively weaponize library order or need a repeatable, low-profile way to disrupt opponents' graveyard loops without nuking everything at once.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Reito Lantern is firmly bulk — a throwaway pickup you grab as an inclusion, not a purchase you think twice about. It won't rise meaningfully in value given how narrow the use case is, but for the decks that want it, the price is never the obstacle.

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