Círdan the Shipwright
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
Vigilance
Secret council — Whenever Círdan enters or attacks, each player secretly votes for a player, then those votes are revealed. Each player draws a card for each vote they received. Each player who received no votes may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Price
- $1.74
- EDHREC rank
- #7688
Círdan the Shipwright draws you a card every upkeep and lets you hand that card to any target — pair him with Illusion of Choice to control which option Galadriel, Elven-Queen's scry resolves on, and you've got a repeating political engine on a three-mana body. The cost is that he gives away the card rather than keeping it, so you're buying tempo and goodwill, not raw card advantage.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Galadriel, Elven-Queen
Galadriel, Elven-Queen appears in 76% of Círdan the Shipwright decks for an obvious reason: Círdan's triggered draw feeds directly into Galadriel's ring-tempting scry loop, and passing the drawn card to a teammate turns a monarch-style effect into a group-hug engine that keeps the table onside.
Kenrith, the Returned King
Kenrith, the Returned King's five-color identity means he can run Círdan the Shipwright as a reliable draw-engine piece in the support role his activated abilities already want — card flow to the right player each upkeep accelerates the political game Kenrith pilots.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Círdan the Shipwright does his best work: the multiplayer political texture of handing cards to allies rewards the generous trigger in ways a duel never would. In Legacy and Vintage he's legal but functionally invisible — three mana for a 2/4 with a slow draw effect doesn't compete in formats that end on turn two or three. Oathbreaker is the only other format where the repeating upkeep trigger has time to matter, and Círdan slots cleanly into blue-based superfriends shells there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Illusion of ChoiceCírdan the ShipwrightSpark DoubleCloudstone Curio
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite card draw for each opponent
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Current price
$1.74 cheap tier
At $1.74, Círdan the Shipwright sits in the cheap tier — low enough that there's no real barrier to picking him up for any Galadriel or group-hug build. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike without a new Lord of the Rings printing, so grab him now if he fits the deck rather than waiting.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.