Spire Winder
Creature — Snake
Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you have the city's blessing.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Rivals of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #29335
Spire Winder is a 2/3 flyer with lifelink that costs four mana — and it only gets that lifelink while you control a creature with flying, which in most decks is trivially true. The rate is still mediocre for Commander, where four mana buys far more threatening bodies, so run it only in dedicated Faerie or Evasion-tribal lists that specifically reward the condition.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spire Winder is a pauper-legal common, and that's the only format where it has a realistic home — aggressive Dimir or Azorius flyers builds can trigger its lifelink consistently and actually care about the life buffer it provides. In Commander, four mana for a 2/3 that conditionally gains lifelink doesn't clear the bar; the format's power ceiling demands more from a four-drop creature slot. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer are non-starters — the card simply doesn't compete at those power levels. Oathbreaker is theoretically legal, but the same Commander logic applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Spire Winder is deep bulk — you'll spend more on a sleeve than on the card itself. That price reflects its power level accurately, so there's no value argument here beyond grabbing a playset for a Pauper flyers list without a second thought.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.