Rowan's Talent
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant planeswalker
Enchanted planeswalker has "[+1]: Up to one target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike and trample until end of turn."
Whenever you activate a loyalty ability of enchanted planeswalker, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #10774
Rowan's Talent lands and immediately gives every planeswalker on your board an extra loyalty activation each turn — that's a game-warping effect stapled to a three-mana enchantment. Commanders like Teferi, Master of Time can phase out threats and draw cards in the same turn, while Commodore Guff turns into a loyalty-stacking engine that closes games fast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Commodore Guff
Commodore Guff's ability to add loyalty counters to other planeswalkers makes Rowan's Talent doubly explosive — each walker ultimates faster while Guff himself snowballs the board into an insurmountable advantage.
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah flips into a planeswalker and immediately wants to plus repeatedly, and Rowan's Talent lets him activate twice a turn so he can protect himself and threaten his ultimate in the same sequence.
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh flips from creature to planeswalker through combat damage, and Rowan's Talent means she can activate the turn she arrives without burning her only loyalty tick on survival.
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager flips into a planeswalker with an ultimate that effectively wins the game, and Rowan's Talent accelerates the loyalty count to that threshold a full turn or two faster than normal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Rowan's Talent belongs — planeswalker-focused EDH decks are the natural home for a card that doubles activations across the board. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal, but the effect is too slow and too narrow against those formats' non-planeswalker-centric threats. Oathbreaker is the other serious home: your planeswalker commander activates twice a turn by default, which often means ultimating by turn three or four.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Teferi, Master of TimeIchormoon GauntletRowan's Talent
Infinite turns; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Rowan's Talent is bulk — easy to pick up without budgeting concerns. The effect is powerful enough in dedicated planeswalker builds that the price should stay in the bulk-to-low-value range rather than climbing, since it sees little play outside those specific shells.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Teferi, Master of Time
- Commodore Guff
- Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
- Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
- Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
- Ichormoon Gauntlet
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.