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Tower Winder

Creature — Snake

Reach, deathtouch
When this creature enters, search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Command Tower, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
Price
$6.23
EDHREC rank
#4409
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Tower Winder card art
Tower Winder enters the battlefield and immediately fetches a dual land to hand — the reach ability is a bonus, not the point. At two mana with a relevant body, it slots cleanly into Aphelia, Viper Whisperer and Kheru Goldkeeper lists that want cheap creatures doing real work on entry.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

74.9% of decks · synergy 0.73

Tower Winder appears in nearly 75% of Aphelia, Viper Whisperer decks because Aphelia cares about cheap creatures entering the battlefield, and Tower Winder's land-fetch on ETB means it both advances the mana base and triggers the engine simultaneously.

02
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant

Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant

59.4% of decks · synergy 0.59

Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant rewards creatures with reach, and Tower Winder pulls double duty — fixing mana on entry while qualifying as a reach creature that taps into Tadeas's combat-damage payoffs.

03
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

41.9% of decks · synergy 0.39

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor lists run Tower Winder as a low-cost body that smooths mana while interacting with the initiative and dungeon-crawl loops Gonti enables at a high table count.

04
Vraska, the Silencer

Vraska, the Silencer

26.9% of decks · synergy 0.25

Vraska, the Silencer plays Tower Winder as inexpensive ramp in a Golgari shell that wants to curve out efficiently before Vraska's threatening static ability starts locking opponents out.

05
Kathril, Aspect Warper

Kathril, Aspect Warper

22.2% of decks · synergy 0.22

Kathril, Aspect Warper picks up Tower Winder for the reach keyword — Kathril distributes keyword counters from the graveyard, and a cheap creature that banks reach while fetching a land is a clean two-for-one toward that plan.

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

Tower Winder is a Commander card through and through — the ETB land-fetch is most valuable in a 100-card singleton format where hitting your land drops consistently matters more than raw card efficiency. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; two-mana creatures that find a basic dual can't compete in those formats' threat density. Oathbreaker can use it in the same shells that want it in Commander, particularly Golgari and Sultai value builds. Outside of Commander and Oathbreaker, Tower Winder simply doesn't exist competitively.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Silverglade Pathfinder and Civic Wayfinder fill a similar role for well under a dollar each — both fetch a basic land to hand on ETB, though neither searches for dual lands the way Tower Winder does, which is the real value proposition here. If the reach keyword isn't relevant to your commander, either swap handles the mana-fixing job at a fraction of the cost.

Price Context

Current price

$6.23 mid tier

At $6.23, Tower Winder sits in the mid tier — noticeable but not prohibitive for what it does. Its price is driven by a narrow, high-demand niche in Aphelia and reach-matters builds, so it holds value as long as those commanders stay popular.

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