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Halo Fountain

Artifact

{W}, {T}, Untap a tapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.
{W}{W}, {T}, Untap two tapped creatures you control: Draw a card.
{W}{W}{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Untap fifteen tapped creatures you control: You win the game.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
Streets of New Capenna
Price
$7.15
EDHREC rank
#1907
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Halo Fountain card art
Halo Fountain is a three-mana win condition that converts an army of tapped white creatures into the game — untapping them for mana, drawing cards, or just ending the game outright if you have enough. Baylen, the Haymaker decks run it as a primary closer, and any shell that can land Sylvan Awakening to tap a board full of land-creatures has a two-card kill on the spot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Baylen, the Haymaker

Baylen, the Haymaker

41.6% of decks · synergy 0.36

Baylen, the Haymaker generates tapped tokens on entry and on attack, which means Halo Fountain's tap-three-creatures ability is online the same turn Baylen resolves — it's the deck's most natural win condition and shows up in over 40% of Baylen lists.

02
Kasla, the Broken Halo

Kasla, the Broken Halo

37.4% of decks · synergy 0.36

Kasla, the Broken Halo cares about enchantments and builds wide with lifelink creatures, making Halo Fountain both a mana engine and a credible alt-win that fits the deck's existing gameplan without asking for anything extra.

03
Mondrak, Glory Dominus

Mondrak, Glory Dominus

42.2% of decks · synergy 0.35

Mondrak, Glory Dominus doubles every token that hits the board, so Halo Fountain's threshold — tap creatures equal to your opponents' life totals combined — drops dramatically when your token count is already doubled.

04
Emmara, Soul of the Accord

Emmara, Soul of the Accord

36.0% of decks · synergy 0.31

Emmara, Soul of the Accord produces a tapped token every time she taps for any reason, which means Halo Fountain's requirements fill themselves just by playing the Emmara gameplan of repeatedly tapping and untapping the commander.

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

Halo Fountain is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it's seeing real play. In competitive formats, three mana for a do-nothing artifact that requires a wide board to function is too slow — there's no Pioneer or Modern shell where tapping creatures for an alt-win beats just winning through combat or combo on turn three. In Oathbreaker, the reduced life totals make the win condition easier to reach, but the format is niche enough that it doesn't move the needle much. Commander is the sweet spot: the 40-life threshold is high enough to reward the specific token-wide shells that run Halo Fountain, and the card draw mode provides real utility while you wait.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There's no clean budget replacement for Halo Fountain because the combination of card draw, mana generation, and alternate win condition on one artifact is genuinely unique — the closest substitutes address only part of the package. Mobilization or Intangible Virtue shore up the token-wide gameplan, and Azor's Elocutors offers a comparable alt-win condition for under $1, though it wins on upkeep rather than at instant speed and demands a very different set of protection pieces.

Price Context

Current price

$7.15 mid tier

At $7.15, Halo Fountain sits in the mid tier — affordable enough to include without debate, but not a bulk pickup. It's a unique enough effect that price is unlikely to crater unless a reprint hits a widely distributed product, so buying in now for an active token deck is reasonable.

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