Tasha, the Witch Queen
Legendary Planeswalker — Tasha
Whenever you cast a spell you don't own, create a 3/3 black Demon creature token.
+1: Draw a card. For each opponent, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and put a page counter on it.
−3: You may cast a spell from among cards in exile with page counters on them without paying its mana cost.
Tasha, the Witch Queen can be your commander.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $9.31
- EDHREC rank
- #4278
Tasha, the Witch Queen turns every instant or sorcery cast from your opponents' graveyards or exile into a free 3/3 Demon token plus a permanent copy of that spell — a threat factory that scales directly with how much interaction your table is slinging. The cost is real: four mana at sorcery speed means she needs a protected board state to pay off, but in any pile that's already casting Displacer Kitten or running alongside Xanathar, Guild Kingpin, she snowballs fast enough to justify the setup.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin exiles cards from opponents' libraries and lets you cast them, which directly feeds Tasha, the Witch Queen's trigger every time one of those exiled instants or sorceries resolves — the two commanders form a tight loop where Xanathar finds the spells and Tasha cashes them in for tokens.
Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter
Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter rewards playing cards exiled from opponents' libraries with Treasure production, and Tasha, the Witch Queen generates token value every time one of those borrowed instants or sorceries resolves — the two pair naturally in a theft shell that converts opponents' decks into both mana and bodies.
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor constantly exiles cards from opponents' libraries and lets you cast them, giving Tasha, the Witch Queen a reliable stream of triggers without requiring your opponents to actively cast spells themselves.
Don Andres, the Renegade
Don Andres, the Renegade builds around casting spells from exile and opponents' hands, and Tasha, the Witch Queen stacks neatly on top by converting every resolved instant or sorcery in that package into an additional 3/3 token.
Sen Triplets
Sen Triplets lets you cast spells directly from opponents' hands, and Tasha, the Witch Queen turns each of those stolen instants or sorceries into a Demon token on top of its normal effect — doubling the return on every spell you borrow.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the format Tasha, the Witch Queen was built for: four opponents mean four graveyards and exile zones to mine, and the multiplayer table guarantees opponents are casting instants and sorceries every turn, so her trigger fires reliably without any additional setup. In 1v1 formats like Legacy or Vintage, where she's technically legal, the math breaks down — one opponent casting two or three instants in a game is far too few triggers to justify a four-mana legend who doesn't affect the board immediately, and neither format is interested in 3/3 tokens at that cost. Oathbreaker shares enough of the multiplayer dynamic to make her functional, especially as a signature-spell engine for theft strategies, but the 20-life format moves faster and she can feel slow if the table isn't spell-heavy.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Tasha, the Witch QueenDisplacer KittenThe Chain Veil
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite casts of instants and sorceries in your opponents' graveyards; Near-infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Greel, Mind Raker and Gonti, Lord of Luxury both operate in the exile-and-cast-opponents'-cards space at a fraction of the price, though neither generates tokens or permanently copies the spells the way Tasha, the Witch Queen does. If the Demon-token engine is what you're after specifically, Bane of Bala Ged costs under a dollar and pressures exile at scale — it doesn't copy spells, but it fills the board-presence role cheaply while you save up for the real card.
Price Context
Current price
$9.31 mid tier
At $9.31, Tasha, the Witch Queen sits in mid-tier pricing — meaningful enough to feel like a purchase decision, cheap enough that she's accessible to most budgets. Her price reflects genuine demand across theft and exile-matters strategies rather than speculative hype, so she holds value as long as those archetypes stay popular in Commander.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.