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Legolas's Quick Reflexes

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains hexproof, reach, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1525
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Legolas's Quick Reflexes card art
Legolas's Quick Reflexes lets a tapped creature untap and gain the ability to deal damage equal to its power to any target — effectively turning any tap-to-activate ability into a repeatable damage outlet on the same turn. The cost is trivially low for what you get, and commanders like Yisan, the Wanderer Bard and Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk make immediate use of the untap to chain activations that would otherwise require waiting a full turn cycle.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

31.7% of decks · synergy 0.25

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard taps to tutor creatures onto the battlefield at progressively higher mana costs, and Legolas's Quick Reflexes untaps him mid-turn so he can immediately activate again — effectively skipping a whole turn of setup and jumping multiple verse counters in a single sequence.

02
Legolas, Master Archer

Legolas, Master Archer

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.23

Legolas, Master Archer already wants to deal damage to creatures as a tap ability, and Legolas's Quick Reflexes doubles his activations per turn while also providing an additional damage vector — the card is essentially tailor-made for the commander it shares a name with.

03
Redshift, Rocketeer Chief

Redshift, Rocketeer Chief

27.2% of decks · synergy 0.23

Redshift, Rocketeer Chief rewards tapping creatures for value, and Legolas's Quick Reflexes lets you untap the most relevant piece and immediately threaten a damage activation, compressing two turns of work into one.

04
Aragorn, Hornburg Hero

Aragorn, Hornburg Hero

23.4% of decks · synergy 0.22

Aragorn, Hornburg Hero cares about attacking and untapping effects that keep pressure up, and Legolas's Quick Reflexes fits cleanly by giving a tapped attacker both an untap and a direct damage shot before the turn ends.

05
Alaundo the Seer

Alaundo the Seer

24.0% of decks · synergy 0.22

Alaundo the Seer taps to generate value from the top of the library, and Legolas's Quick Reflexes untaps him to activate a second time in the same turn — accelerating his engine at instant speed in a way the deck is otherwise always hungry for.

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

Commander is the clear home for Legolas's Quick Reflexes — tap-based commanders are everywhere in the format, and an instant-speed untap stapled to a damage ability is exactly the kind of multi-function card that earns a slot in those 99s. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats but have no meaningful shell for it; the effect is too narrow and too slow against those fields. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning, since tap-ability planeswalkers exist and the card can pull similar tricks there at a smaller table. Everywhere else it's simply not legal, which narrows the conversation almost entirely to Commander — and that's fine, because that's where it does its best work.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Bruce Banner // The Incredible HulkLegolas's Quick Reflexes

Bruce Banner // The Incredible HulkLegolas's Quick Reflexes

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Legolas's Quick Reflexes isn't currently available through our sources, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Given its niche but genuine role in tap-ability commanders, it tends to move with demand from those specific archetypes rather than broad staple pressure.

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