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Timeless Lotus

Legendary Artifact

Timeless Lotus enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
BGRUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Dominaria United Promos
Price
$12.96
EDHREC rank
#2224
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Timeless Lotus card art
Timeless Lotus enters and immediately taps for all five colors, making it one of the most mana-efficient fixers ever printed for five-color Commander decks. Ashling, the Limitless and Derevi, Empyrial Tactician both run it at high rates precisely because paying five mana for a permanent that produces five mana the next turn is just correct math.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ashling, the Limitless

Ashling, the Limitless

41.2% of decks · synergy 0.30

Ashling, the Limitless casts spells with pips across all five colors, and Timeless Lotus resolves every color constraint in a single card — no other fixer does that as cleanly at this cost.

02
Jodah, the Unifier

Jodah, the Unifier

21.4% of decks · synergy 0.11

Jodah, the Unifier's legendary cascade engine demands you hit any color on demand, and Timeless Lotus guarantees that coverage from a single permanent rather than asking your land base to do all the heavy lifting.

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

Timeless Lotus is a Commander card, full stop — it's legal in every major Constructed format but sees virtually no play outside EDH because five-color manabases don't exist at competitive tables in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer. In Commander, it's a staple for any deck running all five colors: the investment of five mana recovers completely on the second turn it's in play, and it scales up under cost-reduction and untap effects. Oathbreaker can use it in five-color signatures, though the smaller game size makes the setup cost slightly more painful. Everywhere else, it's a novelty.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Chromatic Lantern and The Mana Confluence cover the five-color fixing role at lower price points, though the Lantern costs three mana and doesn't accelerate, and the Confluence trades life for flexibility rather than providing free production. If you're primarily after the acceleration rather than the perfect fixing, Gilded Lotus hits for five mana and produces three of one color — meaningful ramp, but it forces you back onto your land base for color breadth.

Price Context

Current price

$12.96 mid tier

At $12.96, Timeless Lotus sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate purchase, cheap enough that it belongs in any five-color deck that can use it rather than being a prestige include. Demand from five-color Commander staples keeps the floor firm, so this is a card you buy when you need it rather than speculate on.

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