Starwinder
Creature — Leviathan
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.
Warp 
(You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $1.01
- EDHREC rank
- #3091
Starwinder puts a Leviathan, Serpent, or Kraken onto the battlefield for free when you attack — the kind of cheating effect that wins games by itself. The cost is a specific creature type restriction on your commander, which Kenessos, Priest of Thassa renders irrelevant.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa was practically designed to run Starwinder — Kenessos already puts Serpents and Leviathans into play for free, and Starwinder stacks that effect on attack, doubling the rate at which enormous sea creatures land on the board.
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep cares about Krakens, Leviathans, Serpents, and Whales, so every creature Starwinder cheats into play triggers her ability and snowballs the advantage further.
Runo Stromkirk
Runo Stromkirk wants the biggest Horrors and sea creatures on board to flip and start copying them; Starwinder accelerates that clock by dropping a massive creature for free each combat step.
Muddle, the Ever-Changing
Muddle, the Ever-Changing builds around morph and disguise creatures, and Starwinder slots in as a free threat generator that rewards swinging with the face-down creatures Muddle incentivizes.
Obeka, Brute Chronologist
Obeka, Brute Chronologist ends turns at will to abuse delayed triggers, and Starwinder's attack trigger is exactly the kind of repeatable effect Obeka can exploit to cheat in a sea monster every manipulated combat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Starwinder is legal in every major constructed format but realistically only relevant in Commander, where singleton rules mean you can't reliably build around it in 60-card formats and the slow, battlecruiser pace of EDH lets a free-creature-on-attack trigger reach its ceiling. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, six mana for a 5/5 that requires you to swing into open boards is just too slow against decks operating at a different axis entirely. Commander is where Starwinder belongs — specifically in sea-creature tribal builds where the density of legal targets makes the cheat effect consistent rather than conditional.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.01 cheap tier
At $1.01, Starwinder sits squarely in budget staple territory for the decks that want it. It's a narrow enough card that demand stays contained to sea-creature tribal builds, so don't expect the price to climb — but for those decks, it's an easy include that punches far above its cost.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.