Akawalli, the Seething Tower
Legendary Creature — Fungus
Descend 4 — As long as there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, Akawalli gets +2/+2 and has trample.
Descend 8 — As long as there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, Akawalli gets an additional +2/+2 and can't be blocked by more than one creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #10046
Akawalli, the Seething Tower hits the board as a threat that scales directly with the number of fungi and myconids you control, turning a wide fungus board into a single massive beater. The cost is real — it does nothing in isolation, and any deck that doesn't already run a critical mass of fungus tokens will find it dead weight.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Mycotyrant
The Mycotyrant floods the board with fungus tokens on every opponent's graveyard trigger, which means Akawalli, the Seething Tower lands as a reliably enormous threat in that shell — the two cards are building toward the same critical mass from opposite angles.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Akawalli, the Seething Tower is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Vintage, but its home is clearly Commander, where the game length and multiplayer graveyards give fungus synergies room to develop. In 60-card formats it's too parasitic — fungus tribal has no competitive infrastructure in Modern or Pioneer, and the card does nothing without that support. Standard is the one possible exception if a fungus-heavy limited environment emerges, but even there the power ceiling is low outside a dedicated tribal build. Commander is where this card belongs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Akawalli, the Seething Tower sits firmly in bulk territory, which is appropriate for a card with narrow tribal requirements. Bulk rares with strict deck-building constraints tend to stay cheap unless a new commander or set pushes the tribe into relevance, so there's no reason to expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Mycotyrant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.