Drumbellower
Creature — Spirit
Flying
Untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Price
- $2.26
- EDHREC rank
- #1986
Drumbellower untaps each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of each opponent's untap step — not once per turn cycle, but once per opponent, which in a four-player game means triple the activations. For commanders like Kelsien, the Plague who need to tap to kill creatures and stack counters, that's the difference between one removal spell per round and three.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kelsien, the Plague
Kelsien, the Plague taps to deal 1 damage to a creature and earns a +1/+1 counter when that creature dies — Drumbellower untaps him during every opponent's untap step, turning a once-per-round removal engine into a three-shots-per-round threat.
King of the Oathbreakers
King of the Oathbreakers cares about Rogue creatures entering and attacking, and Drumbellower's untap trigger applies to every creature wearing a +1/+1 counter — keeping those Rogues ready to swing on each opponent's turn multiplies the pressure the King generates.
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher distributes +1/+1 counters to creatures that become tapped, so the creatures he marks are exactly the ones Drumbellower untaps — the two cards form a loop where counters enable untaps and untaps enable more counter distribution.
Kotori, Pilot Prodigy
Kotori, Pilot Prodigy puts +1/+1 counters on Vehicles whenever they crew and become artifact creatures, and Drumbellower's trigger keeps those piloted Vehicles ready to crew again mid-round rather than sitting tapped until your next turn.
Kasla, the Broken Halo
Kasla, the Broken Halo generates tokens and spreads +1/+1 counters across the board, giving Drumbellower a wide field of targets to untap — more untap triggers means more combat steps and more value squeezed from Kasla's token production.
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 Drumbellower does its best work, and the math is simple: three opponents means three untap steps, so any creature with a +1/+1 counter effectively untaps three extra times per round. Outside Commander, Drumbellower is legal in Legacy and Vintage but those formats have no patience for a three-mana 1/3 that doesn't impact the board the turn it enters — the untap payoff requires a counter-stacking engine that those formats don't support at the pace they run. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 100-card format where Drumbellower can shine, since the smaller pod sizes still net two extra untap triggers and the format's slower clock gives the engine time to fire.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.26 cheap tier
At $2.26, Drumbellower sits in the cheap tier — low enough to slot into any budget build without deliberation. It sees enough play in Kelsien and counter-based Commander decks that the price is unlikely to crater, making it a safe pickup whenever you're building toward one of those engines.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.