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Tiller Engine

Artifact Creature — Construct

Whenever a land you control enters tapped, choose one —
• Untap that land.
• Tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Dominaria United Commander
Price
$27.70
EDHREC rank
#3223
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Tiller Engine card art
Tiller Engine turns every land that enters tapped into a free untap trigger, which means fetchlands, shocklands, and landfall payoffs like Shifting Woodland all come in swinging rather than sitting out a turn. In Lumra, Bellow of the Woods decks especially, that effect compounds fast enough to break parity with opponents who aren't running it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

56.3% of decks · synergy 0.54

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods puts lands into play tapped constantly, and Tiller Engine converts every single one of those triggers into an untap — turning what would be tempo loss into mana advantage on the same turn Lumra is attacking.

02
Nine-Fingers Keene

Nine-Fingers Keene

37.2% of decks · synergy 0.36

Nine-Fingers Keene cares about lands with different names entering play, and Tiller Engine makes sure those lands don't cost you a turn of mana production, letting Keene's domain-style engine run at full speed.

04
Karametra, God of Harvests

Karametra, God of Harvests

28.0% of decks · synergy 0.27

Karametra, God of Harvests floods the board with tapped basics, and Tiller Engine converts that flood into immediate mana rather than a one-turn delay — the more creatures you cast, the bigger the payoff.

05
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.22

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher rewards putting lands into play, and Tiller Engine pairs with that by ensuring those lands contribute mana immediately, which keeps Toph's momentum from stalling on tap-land clunks.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Tiller Engine is a Commander card through and through — the effect scales with the volume of tapped lands entering play, which only reaches critical mass in a 100-card singleton format full of fetchlands, shocklands, and landfall synergies. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, there's no realistic shell that wants a three-mana artifact to untap lands one at a time. Oathbreaker has some landfall builds where Tiller Engine fits, but the smaller deck size and faster games reduce how many triggers you'll reliably see. The Commander ecosystem is where this card lives.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There's no direct budget replacement for Tiller Engine's blanket untap effect on a permanent, but Sword of the Animist and Amulet of Vigor each cover part of the job — Amulet of Vigor replicates the untap clause at $3–4, though it doesn't generate triggers itself and requires the right mana base to maximize. If the goal is just eliminating tapped-land tempo loss, Amulet of Vigor is the closest analog at a fraction of the cost, with the trade-off that it lacks Tiller Engine's additional ability to tap and untap lands as a mana-generation tool.

Price Context

Current price

$27.70 premium tier

At $27.70, Tiller Engine sits in premium artifact territory — a real ask for a card that's a strong synergy piece rather than a standalone engine. The price reflects genuine demand from multiple high-population commanders, so it's not inflated on hype alone, but it's a tough sell unless you're building specifically into Lumra, Bellow of the Woods or a dedicated landfall shell where the untap trigger fires multiple times per turn cycle.

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