Grim Lavamancer
Grim Lavamancer is a red card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Torment printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€14.99) · TCGplayer ($20.27) · Scryfall
How often Grim Lavamancer is played
Grim Lavamancer is maindecked in 8 of 39 tournament decks in this archive (21%), averaging 2.6 copies; used by 1 of 17 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 19 decks that can cast red cards, 8 of them play it (42%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Grim Lavamancer
- Sligh: Repeatable reach and card advantage: pay R and tap to deal 2, fuelled by your graveyard. The best card against removal decks and in the mirror.
Tournament decks with Grim Lavamancer
- Pillar Burn: 5th Place at FNM Lair EDITION (4× mainboard)
- Machine Head: 4th Place at Premodern Mainz Monthly (2× mainboard)
- RG Zoo: 1st Place at 4Seasons Spring Ed. Bologna (Italy) (3× mainboard)
- Mono Red Burn: 1st Place at The Old Skull La Plata (4× mainboard)
- RG Zoo: 1st Place at Retromancers' Monthly (4× mainboard)
- Mono R Ponza: 1st Place at Chile Premier League – May 2026 (2× mainboard)
- 5C Wizards Orb: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá – UGCardShop (1× mainboard)
- The Solution: 2nd Place at Monthly Italiano Maggio (1× mainboard)
