Lamentation
Lamentation: Creature - Elemental Incarnation, Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}{B}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Creature - Elemental Incarnation
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Power / toughness
- 5/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)
- Released
- 2026-01-23
- Collector number
- 10
- Artist
- Lars Grant-West
- Commander rank
- 6,116 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Encore
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About Lamentation
Lamentation is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black creature from Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC), a Commander product released in January 2026. It is collector number 10 in that set, with art by Lars Grant-West. It costs {5}{B} (five generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/4 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.31 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls. You gain 3 life.
Encore {6}{B}{B} ({6}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.31 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Lamentation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Lamentation
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) #30 | Rare | 2026 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Lamentation, newest first.
- If one of the tokens somehow is under another player's control as the delayed triggered ability resolves, you can't sacrifice that token. It remains on the battlefield indefinitely, even if you regain control of it later.
- If the target creature is an illegal target as Lamentation's first ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't gain life.
- If an effect stops a token from attacking a specific player, that token can attack any player, planeswalker, or battle, or not attack at all. If the effect stops the token from attacking a specific player unless a cost is paid, you don't have to pay that cost unless you want to attack that player.
- If one of the tokens can't attack for any reason (such as being tapped), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, you aren't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.
- Exiling the card with encore is a cost to activate the encore ability. Once you announce that you're activating it, no player may take actions until you've finished. They can't try to remove the card from your graveyard to stop you from paying the cost.
- Each token must attack the appropriate player if able.
- Opponents who have left the game aren't counted when determining how many tokens to create.
- The tokens copy only what's on the original card. Effects that modified that creature when it was previously on the battlefield won't be copied.
Similar cards
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In these precons
Lamentation is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.