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Twinflame Tyrant

Creature — Dragon

Flying
If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage instead.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Foundations Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#903
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Twinflame Tyrant card art
Twinflame Tyrant doubles every triggered ability your dragons fire, turning a single Heartless Hidetsugu activation into a table-halving event and making any dragon ETB or attack trigger do double duty the moment it lands. Six mana is real, but the immediate board presence and exponential output make it one of the most explosive payoffs in any dragon shell. Muddle, the Ever-Changing decks in particular treat Twinflame Tyrant as a build-around, since Muddle's ability to copy and transform spells compounds directly with doubled triggers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Muddle, the Ever-Changing

Muddle, the Ever-Changing

42.7% of decks · synergy 0.40

Twinflame Tyrant appears in over 40% of Muddle, the Ever-Changing decks because Muddle's copy-and-mutate engine stacks multiplicatively with doubled triggers — every transformed spell that would fire once now fires twice, turning incremental value into a runaway lead.

02
Rivaz of the Claw

Rivaz of the Claw

40.0% of decks · synergy 0.35

Rivaz of the Claw fuels a dragon-reanimation loop, and Twinflame Tyrant means every dragon that enters from the graveyard triggers twice, doubling the free attacks and ETB damage that make the Rivaz engine so threatening.

03
Kratos, God of War

Kratos, God of War

46.1% of decks · synergy 0.34

Kratos, God of War turns combat into a series of destruction triggers, and Twinflame Tyrant doubles each one — opponents lose twice the permanents per swing, accelerating Kratos's board-control gameplan from attrition to avalanche.

04
Ureni of the Unwritten

Ureni of the Unwritten

40.0% of decks · synergy 0.33

Ureni of the Unwritten cascades creatures onto the battlefield, and Twinflame Tyrant ensures every ETB trigger that cascade generates fires twice, compounding card advantage and board presence simultaneously.

05
The Ur-Dragon

The Ur-Dragon

36.5% of decks · synergy 0.32

The Ur-Dragon already rewards playing dragons with a free permanent every attack step; Twinflame Tyrant doubles that trigger along with every other dragon ETB in the zone, making a single attack with five dragons feel like ten.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Twinflame Tyrant is legal across every major constructed format but has found essentially no foothold outside Commander — six mana for a payoff that requires other creatures to already be triggering is too slow and too conditional for Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where the game is often decided before a dragon tribal synergy engine can assemble. In Commander, that calculus flips entirely: 40 life, slower clocks, and the prevalence of dragon commanders mean Twinflame Tyrant routinely enters a board already set up to abuse it. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could theoretically matter, but the 20-life starting total compresses the window enough that the same speed problem applies.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Twinflame Tyrant isn't currently available in our system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given its near-40% inclusion rate in top synergy commanders and its combo density, demand is unlikely to be trivial — pick it up before you need it rather than after.

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