Sythis, Harvest's Hand
Legendary Enchantment Creature — Nymph
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $5.23
- EDHREC rank
- #921
Sythis, Harvest's Hand draws you a card and gains you a life every time you cast an enchantment — a two-mana engine that turns the enchantment subtype into a self-sustaining draw loop. In any deck built around enchantments, Sythis is an auto-include; Anikthea, Hand of Erebos runs it in nearly 90% of lists for exactly this reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos is an enchantment-reanimation engine, so every enchantment cast triggers Sythis, Harvest's Hand — and the more enchantments you cycle through, the more gas Anikthea has to copy into the graveyard and reanimate.
Narci, Fable Singer
Narci, Fable Singer taxes opponents for enchantment death triggers, and Sythis, Harvest's Hand ensures the deck never runs dry while assembling the enchantment density Narci needs to close games.
Yuna, Hope of Spira
Yuna, Hope of Spira cares about auras and enchantments at a fundamental level, and Sythis, Harvest's Hand converts every piece of the enchantment package into card advantage that keeps Yuna's hand full and her threats online.
Calix, Guided by Fate
Calix, Guided by Fate proliferates counters on enchanted permanents, and Sythis, Harvest's Hand refuels through every enchantment cast so Calix can keep triggering without running out of enchantments to deploy.
Tuvasa the Sunlit
Tuvasa the Sunlit grows with each enchantment and draws a card on the first one each turn, so pairing it with Sythis, Harvest's Hand creates redundant draw triggers that make the deck nearly impossible to exhaust of resources.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sythis, Harvest's Hand is most at home — as a commander itself in Selesnya enchantress decks, or as a powerful support piece in any Abzan, Bant, or four- and five-color enchantment build. The life gain is incidental; the card draw is the reason it shows up in 80–90% of enchantment-focused lists. In Legacy and Vintage, Sythis is legal but rarely sees competitive play — those formats move too fast for a two-mana creature that doesn't affect the board immediately, and enchantress strategies there typically lean on Argothian Enchantress for hexproof redundancy. Modern enchantress shells do exist, and Sythis can slot in as additional copies of the draw trigger, though the archetype remains a fringe player. Pioneer and Standard can't run it, and Pauper is a non-starter at rare.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
The closest functional replacement is Enchantress's Presence, which draws on enchantment casts but lacks the life gain and requires one more mana — it's a strict downgrade in speed but comparably resilient since it's an enchantment itself rather than a creature. Satyr Enchanter hits the same two-mana enchantment-draw trigger as Sythis, Harvest's Hand and costs under a dollar, but it's vanilla otherwise — no life gain, no legendary synergies, and it doesn't double as a commander if that's the role you need filled.
Price Context
Current price
$5.23 mid tier
At $5.23, Sythis, Harvest's Hand sits comfortably in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a real inclusion decision, cheap enough that it's not a barrier for any enchantment deck. Given its near-universal inclusion rate across multiple commanders and its role as both a playable commander and an in-99 staple, that price reflects genuine demand and is unlikely to soften.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.