Lembas

Artifact — Food

When Lembas enters the battlefield, scry 1, then draw a card. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Lembas: You gain 3 life.

When Lembas is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, its owner shuffles it into their library.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (4)

jonjonhholt on Synthetic Gates

5 months ago

Thanks for the suggestions Ookafont! I actually JUST cut Barbed Batterfist but this is still a pretty rough-draft-y list and i think it could be a nice card in place of Lembas which has felt a little slow where at Barbed Batterfist hits the ground running a bit faster. Foundry Helix is sweet but reduces Experimental Synthesizer’s draw consistency by being 3 mana. Faithless Looting is a pretty goated red card and i think id be more inclined if i was running Lunarch Veteran  ^Flip in addition to Sacred Cat but the deck doesnt benefit enough from gy stuff in its current state to feel like its quite worth it.

Gidgetimer on Timing question about Lembas's shuffle …

8 months ago

"Fizzle" is specifically for a targeted effect to be countered by the rules of the game due to having no legal targets. Lembas doesn't target anything and so the ability will still resolve. Even though the Lembas is no longer in the graveyard and can therefore not be shuffled into the library, the library is still shuffled.

701.20d If an effect would cause a player to shuffle a set of objects into a library, that library is shuffled even if there are no objects in that set.

K4nkato on Timing question about Lembas's shuffle …

8 months ago

Let's say I crack Lembas to gain 3 life. In response to the shuffle trigger, I play Frantic Salvage to put it on top of my library and draw it again. When the shuffle trigger resolves, do I still have to shuffle or does the trigger fizzle since Lembas is no longer in the graveyard?

Niko9 on The One Ring

8 months ago

nbarry223 That's true, and in a lot of ways lord of the rings is especially hard because it has a mostly soft magic system and that doesn't translate well into mtg, but I really feel like if the ideas of universes beyond is to bring fans of other things to magic, they should maybe be shooting for wowing fans rather than just making the thing the card.

This set has just really made me think, the decision to do lotr in magic wasn't made with, can we do this well in mind, it was just, are there enough fans to buy this? If so then throw magic effects on stuff and call it good.

Like, Orcish Bowmasters is getting a lot of attention because it's a really great commander card, and it's a really fun design in my opinion for commander, but why do orcs punish card draw? The orc army that is backed by the open use of magic and physical manipulation who are fighting humans who's strength is coming together in times of need. Why does Lembas draw cards? Throwing random magic effects on things from middle earth makes them feel like neither.

: ) and I mean, I know it will never be perfect, and there are probably lots of people who love the set, and it's all good. I just really wish the design process was more of, what does Gandalf the magic card look like, rather than, lets make a bunch of Gandalfs that do generic magic stuff and fans of the character can pick the one they like.

I don't know, it was just kind of a realization with this set maybe. Wizards both won't say no to an IP if it doesn't work, or won't really sit down to make it special if it's hard. If people like it, I guess it's okay, I was just really hoping for something that celebrated middle earth rather than just used it.