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Tangleroot

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a creature spell, that player adds {G}.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Mirrodin
Price
$0.70
EDHREC rank
#16559
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Tangleroot card art
Tangleroot turns every creature spell into a free mana refund, and in any deck casting a high volume of creatures it accelerates your game plan faster than most three-mana artifacts. Thrasta, Tempest's Roar is the clearest showcase — storm off through your hand, let Tangleroot rebate each cast, and watch the threshold hit itself.

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 Tangleroot actually gets played — creature-heavy combo and storm-adjacent builds treat it as a low-cost engine piece that compounds quickly once the board is moving. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but largely ignored; those formats have faster and more reliable combo infrastructure, and Tangleroot's payoff requires a creature-dense shell that doesn't line up with the dominant strategies. Modern is the same story: legal on paper, irrelevant in practice. Tangleroot is a Commander card wearing a multi-format badge.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.70 bulk tier

At $0.70, Tangleroot sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to throw into any creature-storm list without a second thought. The price reflects its narrow application rather than its ceiling; in the right deck it punches above its cost, but demand isn't broad enough to push it higher.

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