Towashi Songshaper
Artifact Creature — Human Artificer
Whenever another artifact you control enters, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #24760
Towashi Songshaper turns any artifact you control into a 3/3 Robot creature until end of turn — repeatable, on-demand, and requiring nothing but a tap and a mana. The cost of being a four-mana 2/4 with summoning sickness on entry is real, but in artifact-heavy shells that want bodies from their permanents, Towashi Songshaper earns its slot.
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 |
Commander is where Towashi Songshaper does its best work, slotting into artifact strategies that want to turn a board of noncreature permanents into a lethal attack. Commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Sai, Master Thopterist create enough artifacts that animating one per turn is low-opportunity-cost and consistently relevant. In Pauper, the common slot is competitive and a four-mana, tap-based animator faces stiff opposition from more efficient options. Towashi Songshaper is unplayed in Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer — formats where four mana for a non-immediate effect simply doesn't meet the bar.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Towashi Songshaper is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar bin without thinking twice. Bulk rares at this price point rarely appreciate unless a new commander or combo pushes them into high demand, so grab it for the deck and don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.