Venerable Lammasu
Creature — Lammasu
Flying
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #30799
Venerable Lammasu is a 4/4 flying vigilance body for seven mana — passable stats buried under a cost that kills it in any competitive context. Seven mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature is unplayable in formats where that slot needs to win the game or end it.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Venerable Lammasu is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, seven mana buys you game-ending threats — Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Blightsteel Colossus, Craterhoof Behemoth — and a 4/4 flier with vigilance doesn't compete at that price point. In Legacy and Vintage, the card doesn't exist; the format speed makes it irrelevant before it could ever land. Modern and Pioneer have the same problem in a less extreme form — seven mana is a closing condition, not a floor for a medium-sized beater.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Venerable Lammasu sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no pressure driving that up. It's a safe throw-in for a trade binder but don't expect the price to move — the demand simply isn't there.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.