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Candelabra of Tawnos

Artifact

{X}, {T}: Untap X target lands.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7134
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Candelabra of Tawnos card art
Candelabra of Tawnos turns high-output lands into a mana engine that can generate absurd surpluses in a single turn — the kind of effect that wins games on the spot when paired with Urborg, Cabal Coffers, or any untap-payoff loop. The entry cost is steep, which is exactly why you see it almost exclusively in cEDH lists like Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful rather than casual piles.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Thrasios, Triton HeroYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

44.7% of decks · synergy 0.44

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful is the quintessential Candelabra of Tawnos home because the deck needs to generate enormous amounts of blue or green mana quickly to activate Thrasios repeatedly until it finds a win — and Candelabra converts a single big land like Nykthos or a Cradle into the exact mana density that loop demands.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Candelabra of Tawnos is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander, where the singleton format and access to powerful Lands-matter staples let it shine most consistently. In Legacy, the card exists but sees essentially no play — the format moves too fast for a one-mana artifact that does nothing the turn it enters without a dedicated setup. Vintage has the raw power density to abuse it, though the format's reliance on unrestricted fast mana makes Candelabra redundant in most configurations. Commander is where it earns its price tag, specifically in cEDH shells that can reliably deploy Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, Gaea's Cradle, or Cabal Coffers and need a way to extract multiple activations from a single land in one turn.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Candelabra of Tawnos is one of the most expensive functional artifacts in the game, with copies typically trading in the hundreds of dollars due to its age, single printing, and genuine cEDH demand. There is no meaningful budget substitute — the effect is unique enough that no cheaper card replicates it, so if the price is a barrier, the honest answer is to build around a different engine.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.