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Living Twister

Creature — Elemental

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.
{G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{R}{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
rare
Set
War of the Spark
Price
$0.27
EDHREC rank
#11504
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Living Twister card art
Living Twister turns surplus lands into repeatable direct damage — pay one red, discard a land, deal two to any target — which is a genuinely dangerous rate when you're already flooding the board with landfall triggers. Omnath, Locus of Rage and Borborygmos Enraged both run it because it converts the land-heavy late game from a resource glut into a closing engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Borborygmos Enraged

Borborygmos Enraged

24.1% of decks · synergy 0.23

Borborygmos Enraged already wants to throw lands at opponents' faces, and Living Twister extends that axis to a permanent you control rather than a one-shot commander activation — two damage outlets on the board means removal has to answer both before the land-pitching loop can be shut down.

02
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

21.4% of decks · synergy 0.21

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor animates lands and pushes land-drop volume, so Living Twister slots in as a safety valve that converts the lands you've already played into reach — when Obuun swings and the board stalls, Living Twister closes the gap from hand.

03
Omnath, Locus of Rage

Omnath, Locus of Rage

20.4% of decks · synergy 0.19

Omnath, Locus of Rage generates 5/5 elementals on every landfall trigger, and Living Twister gives those land drops a second function: if a board wipe threatens to end the token plan, you can pivot to pitching lands directly at life totals before the dust settles.

04
Omnath, Locus of the Roil

Omnath, Locus of the Roil

19.4% of decks · synergy 0.19

Omnath, Locus of the Roil rewards landing lands with card draw and direct damage, and Living Twister adds a repeatable outlet that doesn't depend on Omnath surviving — it keeps the damage pipeline open even when the commander gets answered.

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

Commander is where Living Twister does its best work — 40-life totals demand repeated damage sources, and the discard-a-land activation is trivially free in any deck running Cultivate effects or extra land-drop payoffs. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but sees essentially no play; two mana for a 3/5 with a slow repeatable ability doesn't compete with the format's threat density. Legacy and Vintage grant it legality but no relevance — the power bar is simply too high. Living Twister is a Commander-only card in practice, and it earns that niche cleanly.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.27 bulk tier

At $0.27, Living Twister is deep bulk — there's no financial barrier to picking up a copy or three. Bulk rares at this price rarely climb unless a new commander creates a spike in demand, so treat it as a throw-in rather than a spec.

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