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Felhide Spiritbinder

Creature — Minotaur Shaman

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {1}{R}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of another target creature, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Born of the Gods
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#13277
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Felhide Spiritbinder card art
Felhide Spiritbinder turns any nontoken creature into a temporary copy of your best creature on the board — an effect that scales hard in Minotaur tribal and any shell that floods the field with creatures. The four-mana body with a tap cost is real overhead, but Ondu Spiritdancer and Sethron, Hurloon General both break the rate fast enough to justify it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Sethron, Hurloon General

Sethron, Hurloon General

75.3% of decks · synergy 0.74

Sethron, Hurloon General triggers off every nontoken Minotaur entering, and Felhide Spiritbinder copies are nontoken — meaning each activation can chain into another trigger, snowballing the board while Sethron pumps and menaces everything in play.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Felhide Spiritbinder is a Commander card, full stop. The four-mana 3/3 with a tap cost is too slow and too narrow for competitive Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, where every format-legal shell demands faster payoffs than one copy per turn cycle. Pioneer is theoretically legal but the card sees no real play there — tribal synergy at this cost level doesn't clear the Pioneer bar. In Commander, though, the calculus flips: one extra combat step or one copied Craterhoof Behemoth wins games, and tribal decks like Sethron's Minotaurs give Felhide Spiritbinder consistent, low-friction fuel.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Felhide SpiritbinderGreat Oak GuardianFire Whip

Felhide SpiritbinderGreat Oak GuardianFire Whip

Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite damage; Infinite ETB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn

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Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Felhide Spiritbinder is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap order filler. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb unless a new Minotaur commander pushes the archetype into broader play.

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