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Season of Weaving

Sorcery

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once.
{P} — Draw a card.
{P}{P} — Choose an artifact or creature you control. Create a token that's a copy of it.
{P}{P}{P} — Return each nonland, nontoken permanent to its owner's hand.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Bloomburrow
Price
$3.95
EDHREC rank
#2218
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Season of Weaving card art
Season of Weaving draws you three cards and puts a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three creatures — the board impact is immediate and substantial. The cost is a three-mana sorcery slot that competes with faster options, but Sandstorm Salvager and any token-heavy or +1/+1 counter shell make that trade trivially easy to justify. Riku of Many Paths copying it turns a strong spell into a blowout.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Riku of Many Paths

Riku of Many Paths

50.7% of decks · synergy 0.49

Riku of Many Paths copies instants and sorceries, so Season of Weaving becomes six cards drawn and six counters distributed for a modest extra investment — that's the entire reason it appears in more than half of all Riku lists.

02
Alania, Divergent Storm

Alania, Divergent Storm

42.7% of decks · synergy 0.39

Alania, Divergent Storm cares about casting noncreature spells and generating token triggers, and Season of Weaving feeds both sides of that engine while refilling hand in the same motion.

03
Hidetsugu and Kairi

Hidetsugu and Kairi

37.9% of decks · synergy 0.37

Hidetsugu and Kairi rewards high-impact blue spells cast from hand, and Season of Weaving's combination of card draw and counter distribution lines up cleanly with what that commander wants to be doing each turn.

04
Clement, the Worrywort

Clement, the Worrywort

25.2% of decks · synergy 0.22

Clement, the Worrywort scales on +1/+1 counters entering the battlefield, making Season of Weaving a three-trigger burst that also keeps the hand stocked for follow-up plays.

05
Cynette, Jelly Drover

Cynette, Jelly Drover

27.5% of decks · synergy 0.22

Cynette, Jelly Drover populates creature tokens and wants payoffs that spread counters across a wide board — Season of Weaving hits up to three bodies at once while drawing into the next threat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Season of Weaving is legal everywhere except Pauper, but Commander is where it earns its slot most consistently. In a 100-card singleton format where refueling after a board wipe and distributing counters both matter, a single spell that does both at sorcery speed for three mana clears the bar easily. Competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern have access to faster draw and don't typically want sorcery-speed card draw without an attached engine, so Season of Weaving sees virtually no play there. Pioneer and Standard are the more realistic non-Commander homes, particularly in green-blue +1/+1 counter strategies that want density of payoffs.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.95 cheap tier

At $3.95, Season of Weaving sits at the low end of the cheap tier — reasonable for a card pulling 50%+ inclusion in its highest-synergy commanders. That price is likely stable given its appeal in popular archetypes rather than a single breakout deck.

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