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Spellweaver Helix

Artifact

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile two target sorcery cards from a single graveyard.
Whenever a player casts a card, if it has the same name as one of the cards exiled with this artifact, you may copy the other. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Mirrodin
Price
$2.55
EDHREC rank
#10853
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Spellweaver Helix card art
Spellweaver Helix imprints two sorceries and copies whichever one you cast whenever you cast the other — free value that compounds every time you recur either spell. The setup cost is real: you need two sorceries in hand at the same time, a three-mana artifact that does nothing until you cast again, and a commander like Katilda and Lier who can routinely set up the Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate pairing to make that cost irrelevant.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Katilda and Lier

Katilda and Lier

23.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

Katilda and Lier is the premier Spellweaver Helix shell because the commander's flashback effect turns every graveyard sorcery into a second imprint candidate, letting you fire off the Helix's copy trigger on demand. The built-in recursion means you're rarely short the two sorceries you need at imprint time, and doubling drain spells like Exsanguinate ends games on the spot.

02
Aeve, Progenitor Ooze

Aeve, Progenitor Ooze

15.2% of decks · synergy 0.15

Aeve, Progenitor Ooze is a Storm commander that naturally casts and recasts sorceries in the same turn, which is exactly the condition Spellweaver Helix needs to keep triggering. Imprint a mass-ritual and a payoff, then Storm off and watch the Helix copy the payoff every time you recast the ritual.

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

Commander is where Spellweaver Helix actually gets to live — the format's longer games give you time to find both imprint targets, and the payoff of copying drain spells or Storm payoffs at no extra mana cost scales hard against multiple opponents. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats kill too fast for a do-nothing artifact that requires three mana plus two sorceries to set up. Modern is the same story — the setup cost is too slow against efficient threats and counterspells. Spellweaver Helix is a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.55 cheap tier

At $2.55, Spellweaver Helix sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it's an easy inclusion test in any deck that can use it. Niche combo artifacts at this price tend to hold steady rather than spike; demand is narrow enough that there's no obvious pressure pushing it higher.

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