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Lucius the Eternal
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Lucius the Eternal

Legendary Creature — Astartes Warrior
3BR
· Rakdos
Haste Armour of Shrieking Souls — When Lucius the Eternal dies, exile it and choose target creature an opponent controls. When that creature leaves the battlefield, return this card from exile to the battlefield under its owner's control.
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36 lands · total $99.96 budget: $100
B 20 R 18 C 3
Composition 21 Basics 8 Other Nonbasic 3 Fetch Lands 1 Bond Lands 1 Check Lands 1 Reveal Lands (Shadows / Snarls) 1 Shock Lands

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Lucius the Eternal yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$4.89 7

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$95.07 7

Other Nonbasics

$0.00 1

Basics

$1.68 21

About This Manabase

Lucius the Eternal is a Rakdos commander with a BR color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Lucius the Eternal, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Path of Ancestry , and others when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Blood Crypt, Bloodstained Mire, Wooded Foothills, Polluted Delta , plus 3 more for Lucius the Eternal's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.