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Whip Silk

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)
{G}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Invasion
Price
$0.36
EDHREC rank
#9250
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Whip Silk card art
Whip Silk gives any creature reach and lets you reattach it for one green mana, making it a renewable tool rather than a one-shot buff. On a creature like Goldspan Dragon or Tatsunari, Toad Rider, that repeated enchantment trigger is the actual payoff — the reach is almost a footnote.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tatsunari, Toad Rider

Tatsunari, Toad Rider

49.2% of decks · synergy 0.48

Tatsunari, Toad Rider triggers on casting enchantments, and Whip Silk's retrace ability lets you replay it from the graveyard every turn you have a land to spare — that's a repeatable Keimi trigger stapled to a one-mana spell.

02
Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

31.2% of decks · synergy 0.29

Sythis, Harvest's Hand draws a card every time an enchantment enters, so Whip Silk's retrace becomes a slow but real card-neutral loop that also gains life each iteration.

03
Legolas, Master Archer

Legolas, Master Archer

17.8% of decks · synergy 0.17

Legolas, Master Archer cares about creatures with reach, and Whip Silk is the cheapest way to grant it — cast it once for one mana, then retrace it back onto whatever needs the keyword next turn.

04
Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

13.2% of decks · synergy 0.13

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade makes a +1/+1 counter token whenever an aura or equipment enters attached to a creature, so Whip Silk's retrace turns a single graveyard card into a repeating counter engine as long as you keep pitching lands.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Whip Silk is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is the only format where it earns a slot. In Pauper it's technically playable but reach is rarely a build-around and retrace doesn't fit the tempo demands of that format. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it. Commander is where the retrace loop finds a home: enchantress commanders, aura-counter synergy generals, and any commander that wants cheap repeated enchantment triggers all have a real reason to run Whip Silk over a do-nothing one-shot aura.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.36 bulk tier

At $0.36, Whip Silk is deep bulk — you're paying for a slot, not a card. There's no financial reason to hesitate on picking one up, and no realistic scenario where a common with this narrow a use case appreciates meaningfully.

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