Is Song of Creation good in Commander?

Song of Creation

Enchantment

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Whenever you cast a spell, draw two cards.
At the beginning of your end step, discard your hand.

CMC: 4
Mana cost
Color identity: GRU
Rarity: rare
Set: Magic Online Promos
Price: —
EDHREC rank: #4518

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Song of Creation doubles your land drops and draws a card every time you play one, which is the kind of engine that takes over a game — the catch is it empties your hand at end of turn, so you need to convert the velocity into permanents immediately or lose everything. Glacial Chasm pairs with it as a patience-tester: you can lock the board and dig, but the cumulative upkeep will kill you if you don't find your payoff. Flubs, the Fool turns that discard clause into a free-roll, making Song of Creation less a liability and more a pure accelerant.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Flubs, the Fool

78.1% of decks · synergy 0.69

Flubs, the Fool runs Song of Creation in over 78% of its decks because the commander's entire game plan rewards playing from a stocked hand while punishing opponents for the same — Song of Creation floods your hand with lands and draws, and Flubs converts that mass of cards into direct pressure before the end-of-turn discard ever becomes relevant.

Loot, the Key to Everything

20.6% of decks · synergy 0.12

Loot, the Key to Everything shows up in roughly 20% of its builds with Song of Creation because both cards are chasing the same thing: chain as many spells and land drops as possible in a single turn to trigger cascading value, and Song of Creation turns every land in hand into another draw step that fuels the next one.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Song of Creation is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is unambiguously where it belongs — the singleton format's slower clock gives you time to set up the discard workaround, and the sheer number of permanents-matter and landfall payoffs available makes the engine worth building around. In Modern and Pioneer, the end-of-turn discard is a harder problem: competitive decks don't have the luxury of two or three turns to convert card velocity into board presence, so Song of Creation mostly sits on the shelf in those formats. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power density to pair it with fast mana and flash threats, but there are cleaner engines available at that power level. Stick to Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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