Restless Spire
Land
This land enters tapped.
: Add 
or 
.: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/1 blue and red Elemental creature with "During your turn, this creature has first strike." It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, scry 1.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.44
- EDHREC rank
- #4763
Restless Spire enters untapped and produces blue mana while looting whenever you cast your commander — that's a land slot doing the work of a cantrip engine. The cost is real: it only produces colorless otherwise, so running it outside of Rootha, Mastering the Moment decks that actually cast their commander repeatedly is a significant downgrade.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rootha, Mastering the Moment
Rootha, Mastering the Moment gets cast and recasted constantly by design, which means Restless Spire triggers almost every turn — turning a land drop into a steady stream of loot effects that dig toward the instants and sorceries the deck wants.
Beluna Grandsquall
Beluna Grandsquall cares about cards with odd mana values, and Restless Spire's looting helps churn through the deck to find them; the synergy score is modest, but in a deck that replays its commander aggressively, the free card selection adds up.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Restless Spire is purpose-built for decks that cast their commander multiple times per game — the loot trigger converts those recasts into card selection with no additional mana investment. Outside of that niche, it's a colorless producer masquerading as a blue source, which is a problem in mana-hungry three- or four-color lists. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the enter-untapped condition is fine, but the conditional loot trigger and colorless limitation make it a distant third behind actual dual lands or more reliable cantrip lands. Legacy and Vintage have access to too many strictly better options for this to see serious play. Standard is where it has the most legitimate case beyond Commander, specifically in aggressive or midrange Izzet shells that regularly replay a legendary creature.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.44 bulk tier
At $0.44, Restless Spire is bulk, and that price is appropriate — it's a role-player that only reaches full value in a specific commander archetype. Bulk prices on niche utility lands tend to stay stable unless a breakout deck pushes demand, so there's no urgency to acquire it at any particular moment.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rootha, Mastering the Moment
- Beluna Grandsquall
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.