Torii Watchward
Creature — Spirit
Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #28758
Torii Watchward puts a 2/2 vigilance Spirit token onto the battlefield every upkeep as long as you control an enchantment — persistent, free-rolling board presence that accrues without any additional mana investment. The catch is the five-mana entry cost, which means you need a reliable enchantment suite to justify it.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Torii Watchward is a Commander card through and through — the slow, cumulative value it generates fits a 40-life multiplayer game where you have multiple upkeeps to compound the token production. In enchantment-heavy decks built around commanders like Tuvasa the Sunlit or Sythis, Harvest's Hand, it slots naturally as a token engine that doubles as a constellation trigger. In Pauper it's legal but competes poorly against more efficient common threats at five mana. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — five mana for a conditional token engine doesn't register in formats measured in turn-two kills.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Torii Watchward is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box or grab as a throw-in. That price is stable by nature; there's no spike trajectory for a niche enchantment token-maker, but you're also risking almost nothing picking up a copy for a themed build.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.