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On Wings of Gold

Enchantment

Creatures you control that are Zombies and/or tokens get +1/+1 and have flying.
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 white Zombie creature token.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Aetherdrift Commander
Price
$1.36
EDHREC rank
#3921
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On Wings of Gold card art
On Wings of Gold gives a creature — or a graveyard engine like Tortured Existence — a flicker effect that triggers enters-the-battlefield abilities and resets tokens for one white mana at instant speed. Temmet, Naktamun's Will decks run it at nearly 90% inclusion because flickering a token on end step means it enters fresh and gets Temmet's buff for free on the next attack.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Temmet, Naktamun's Will

Temmet, Naktamun's Will

87.4% of decks · synergy 0.80

Temmet, Naktamun's Will cares about tokens entering the battlefield, and On Wings of Gold flickers any token at instant speed on end step to trigger that bonus again — 87% inclusion rate is essentially a consensus staple.

02
Varina, Lich Queen

Varina, Lich Queen

53.4% of decks · synergy 0.46

Varina, Lich Queen builds a wide zombie board, and On Wings of Gold protects key attackers from removal while resetting any ETB triggers on her zombie tokens mid-combat.

03
Quintorius, History Chaser

Quintorius, History Chaser

44.9% of decks · synergy 0.44

Quintorius, History Chaser fires on every spell cast from exile, and On Wings of Gold re-enters a creature to the battlefield so it can be exiled and replayed again, compounding Quintorius's trigger count.

04
God-Eternal Oketra

God-Eternal Oketra

27.9% of decks · synergy 0.27

God-Eternal Oketra creates a 4/4 Zombie Warrior every time a creature enters the battlefield under your control, so On Wings of Gold on any creature is effectively a one-mana 4/4 with an ETB rider.

05
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

25.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist rewards attacking with exerted creatures, and On Wings of Gold flickers an exerted creature to remove the exert penalty and prime it for another attack immediately.

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 natural home for On Wings of Gold — one-mana instant-speed flicker is exactly the kind of toolbox spell that multiplayer games reward, where holding up mana to protect a key creature or reset an ETB on an opponent's end step is always worth the card slot. In Legacy and Vintage, the competition is steep: those formats have access to Ephemerate, which offers rebound for the same cost and does the same protective work without needing a creature already in play. On Wings of Gold is legal in Oathbreaker as well, where the same ETB-reset logic applies in a smaller game. It's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so outside of Commander it's a niche pickup.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.36 cheap tier

At $1.36, On Wings of Gold sits in the cheap tier — low enough that you're not making a budget decision by including it, just a deckbuilding one. Given its near-universal inclusion in Temmet, Naktamun's Will lists and strong overlap with any white ETB strategy, it holds that price comfortably without being a speculative buy.

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