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Ondu Spiritdancer

Creature — Kor Cleric

Whenever an enchantment you control enters, you may create a token that's a copy of it. Do this only once each turn.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
Price
$11.54
EDHREC rank
#1562
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Ondu Spiritdancer card art
Ondu Spiritdancer doubles every aura you cast onto it, turning enchantress shells into exponential threats in a single turn cycle. The cost is real — a 0/3 body is fragile and the payoff requires aura density — but Aminatou, Veil Piercer and Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor decks run it because no other card accelerates an enchantment-based board state as fast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Aminatou, Veil Piercer

Aminatou, Veil Piercer

76.2% of decks · synergy 0.70

Aminatou, Veil Piercer's ability to repeatedly blink enchanted permanents turns Ondu Spiritdancer into a recursive doubling engine, and the 76% inclusion rate reflects exactly how central that loop is to the deck's gameplan.

02
Narci, Fable Singer

Narci, Fable Singer

65.2% of decks · synergy 0.58

Narci, Fable Singer rewards enchantment density with damage triggers, and Ondu Spiritdancer compounds that density faster than almost any other card in the color identity — 65% of Narci pilots agree.

03
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

64.5% of decks · synergy 0.57

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos reanimates enchantments from the graveyard as creature tokens, and Ondu Spiritdancer's doubling effect means each aura cast before the reanimation engine spins up leaves a much larger pile to work with.

05
Yuna, Hope of Spira

Yuna, Hope of Spira

54.8% of decks · synergy 0.51

Yuna, Hope of Spira tutors for auras and stacks them onto creatures, so Ondu Spiritdancer's doubling effect converts every Yuna activation into a two-for-one on the board.

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 format Ondu Spiritdancer was built for — enchantress and aura-voltron strategies have the card density and slow enough game pace to let the doubling effect compound over multiple turns. In Oathbreaker the same logic applies at a smaller table, though the faster pace makes the 0/3 body a liability unless your spellshaper slot protects it. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but Ondu Spiritdancer is far too slow and narrow for those formats — no competitive aura shell exists that would want a four-mana 0/3 with no immediate board impact. Outside of Commander, this card has no meaningful home.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Ondu Spiritdancer is out of budget, Kor Spiritdancer fills a similar role — it draws cards on each aura cast rather than copying them, which is less explosive but more resilient when the creature dies before the value lands. Three Dreams is another angle: it tutors three auras from your library at sorcery speed, achieving the density that Ondu Spiritdancer tries to build through copying, though it lacks the ongoing engine and costs mana each time.

Price Context

Current price

$11.54 mid tier

At $11.54, Ondu Spiritdancer sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel in a budget build, cheap enough that any enchantress deck running it is getting real value per dollar. The card sees play in multiple high-volume commanders, so the price is unlikely to crater, though it's not a staple that demands a rush to acquire.

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