Tower Geist
Creature — Spirit
Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Origins
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #24045
Tower Geist enters, draws you two cards, and leaves a 2/3 flyer on the board — that's real card advantage stapled to a relevant body. Four mana for that package is fair, not exciting, and it gets outclassed fast in powered pods.
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 |
In Commander, Tower Geist is a role-player in budget blue builds and flicker shells where the enter-the-battlefield trigger fires repeatedly — bounce it with Conjurer's Closet and the card selection compounds. In Pauper it's a legitimate common threat, where a 2/3 flyer that draws two at common rarity is genuinely above rate for the format. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all ignore Tower Geist entirely; four mana for this effect is miles behind what those formats demand.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Tower Geist is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any common box or bulk rare bin without thinking twice. That price is a floor with nowhere meaningful to go, so grab copies freely and don't think about it as anything other than a cheap pickup for a budget build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.