Tapping at the Window
Sorcery
Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #17826
Tapping at the Window puts two 1/1 Squirrel tokens into play and draws you a card — three resources for one green mana if your commander or payoffs care about tokens or card flow. It's a legitimately efficient rate, and the only real cost is the sorcery speed.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tapping at the Window earns a slot in any token-based green deck that wants both board presence and card advantage on the same line — Squirrel typal, aristocrats, and go-wide strategies all want exactly this. Pauper is the other format where it genuinely competes: commons that produce multiple bodies and replace themselves are rare, and token synergies exist there at meaningful density. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, the sorcery speed and lack of immediate board impact push it out of consideration — faster formats punish you for not affecting the board at instant speed or winning outright.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Tapping at the Window is deep bulk — you're picking these out of a commons box or ordering a playset for under a dollar. Bulk commons with genuine synergy upside rarely spike unless a dedicated typal commander gets printed, so expect it to stay in this range.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.