Tanglespan Lookout
Creature — Satyr
Whenever an Aura you control enters, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #5464
Tanglespan Lookout turns every Aura you cast into a free scry, which means in any deck running ten or more enchantments it's generating consistent card selection for three mana. Gylwain, Casting Director decks nearly universally run it because the role tokens Gylwain produces are Auras, so the Lookout triggers on your commander's ability without you spending an extra card.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gylwain, Casting Director
Gylwain, Casting Director creates role tokens — which are Auras — every time a creature enters under your control, so Tanglespan Lookout triggers repeatedly without you ever casting a dedicated enchantment spell, making it a free scry engine bolted onto the normal gameplan.
Stangg, Echo Warrior
Stangg, Echo Warrior cares about Auras and Equipment entering the battlefield attached to creatures, and the token copy he generates inherits those attachments, so Tanglespan Lookout fires on every Aura cast and helps you find the next one in a deck already built around stacking enchantments.
Ellivere of the Wild Court
Ellivere of the Wild Court rewards you for spreading Auras across creatures to generate Virtuous Role tokens, and Tanglespan Lookout converts that enchantment-dense gameplan into a steady scry engine that keeps the gas flowing.
Preston Garvey, Minuteman
Preston Garvey, Minuteman generates token copies of creatures whenever you attach Auras or Equipment to a creature without one, so Tanglespan Lookout slots in as a cheap way to filter draws as the deck repeatedly triggers Preston's ability.
Mazzy, Truesword Paladin
Mazzy, Truesword Paladin returns Auras from the graveyard to hand when the enchanted creature dies, creating a recursive loop of replaying enchantments — and Tanglespan Lookout turns each of those recasts into a scry that helps Mazzy find her next threat or protection piece.
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 |
Tanglespan Lookout is legal across the major constructed formats — Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — but it's a Commander card at heart. In 60-card formats, a three-mana 1/3 that scrys when you cast Auras competes with far more efficient card selection, and dedicated Aura strategies in those formats rarely want the effect on a body with no evasion or immediate board impact. Commander is where it earns its slot: multiplayer games run long enough that incremental scrying every time you cast an enchantment compounds into meaningful card quality, and Aura-heavy commanders generate enough triggers to justify the three-mana investment.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Tanglespan Lookout is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk rares with high inclusion rates in popular commander archetypes tend to stay cheap because supply is plentiful, so there's no reason to hesitate picking up copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Gylwain, Casting Director
- Stangg, Echo Warrior
- Ellivere of the Wild Court
- Preston Garvey, Minuteman
- Mazzy, Truesword Paladin
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.