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Second Wind

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
{T}: Tap enchanted creature.
{T}: Untap enchanted creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Future Sight
Price
$0.72
EDHREC rank
#16954
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Second Wind card art
Second Wind taps a creature to untap one of your permanents — the real play is stapling that untap trigger to something that wants to tap repeatedly, like Merieke Ri Berit or Unctus, Grand Metatect. The cost is real: it's an enchantment that eats a removal spell and does nothing the turn you play it, so you only run it in decks that will abuse the engine every turn.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Merieke Ri Berit

Merieke Ri Berit

12.8% of decks · synergy 0.13

Merieke Ri Berit steals a creature when she taps and destroys it when she untaps — Second Wind turns any creature you control into a repeatable tap outlet, letting you steal a new target every turn without needing a dedicated untap engine elsewhere.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Second Wind is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no play outside Commander — the effect is too slow and too narrow for any format where you need to win before turn four or five. In Commander it earns a slot specifically in tap-matters or untap-abuse decks, where a single enchantment that generates repeated value every turn is worth the setup cost. Legacy and Modern have cleaner ways to untap permanents, and Second Wind's ceiling in those formats is functionally zero.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.72 bulk tier

At $0.72, Second Wind is firmly bulk — low enough that the financial barrier to trying it is nonexistent. It's a niche card with a small, stable audience, so don't expect the price to move in either direction.

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