Tanglewalker
Creature — Dryad
Each creature you control can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an artifact land.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Darksteel
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #28240
Tanglewalker turns every artifact land your opponents control into a free evasion grant for all your creatures — in artifact-heavy metas, that's a lot of unblockable attackers for three mana. The effect is entirely dependent on the table, but in Commander it's almost always live.
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 |
Tanglewalker is a Commander card through and through — three opponents each potentially running artifact lands means the effect can apply to multiple players simultaneously, turning it from a niche enabler into a consistent evasion engine. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically legal but competes in formats where game states rarely reward a three-mana do-nothing-until-combat creature, and artifact lands are banned in Modern anyway, making Tanglewalker essentially unplayable there. Commander is where it belongs: artifact staples like Exotic Orchard variants and Myriad Landscape are common, and competitive tables running Ancient Tomb or Mana Crypt aren't artifact lands, but dedicated artifact decks — which are everywhere in the format — often run Seat of the Synod and its cycle, feeding Tanglewalker reliably.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Tanglewalker is deep bulk — you're not paying for the card, you're paying for the shipping. It's a niche card with a narrow home, so don't expect the price to move unless an artifact-lands commander breaks out and drags it along.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.