Time Spiral
Sorcery
Exile Time Spiral. Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $96.36
- EDHREC rank
- #6879
Time Spiral refills your hand to seven, untaps six lands, and makes every opponent draw — all for free after you cast it. In Nekusar, the Mindrazer decks, that mass draw is damage, and the land untap means you can hold up interaction the same turn you cast it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Nekusar, the Mindrazer turns every card each opponent draws into a Lightning Bolt to the face, so the mass refill from Time Spiral hits the table as a burst of direct damage — often 21+ points spread across three opponents in a single cast.
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 where Time Spiral earns its slot: three opponents drawing cards means triple the damage in Nekusar, the Mindrazer builds, triple the wheel triggers in storm-adjacent lines, and six untapped lands the turn you cast it effectively make the card free in a long game. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but those formats move faster than a six-mana sorcery can keep up with — it sees essentially no play there. Oathbreaker is legal but similarly fast enough that six mana is a steep ask unless your planeswalker synergizes directly with the wheel effect.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Windfall and Wheel of Fortune cover the refill-and-draw-seven axis for a fraction of the price, though neither untaps your lands or exiles itself to eliminate the graveyard footprint that Time Spiral uniquely provides. If the land untap is the specific draw, Recharge effects don't exist cleanly at budget — you're paying for that line, and there's no true substitute under $10.
Price Context
Current price
$96.36 premium tier
At $96.36, Time Spiral sits firmly in the premium tier — a price driven by its unique combination of mass draw, land untap, and self-exile on a single card. It holds that value because nothing else does all three, but it's a slot you commit to deliberately, not casually.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.