Will of the Sultai
Sorcery
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Target player mills three cards. Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
• Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is the number of lands you control. It gains trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Price
- $1.96
- EDHREC rank
- #3232
Will of the Sultai puts two cards into your graveyard and draws one, all for two mana at instant speed — that's a card-neutral self-mill spell that replaces itself while fueling the bin. Teval, the Balanced Scale runs it as a core piece precisely because stocking the graveyard and drawing are the same action here, not competing ones.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale wants a full graveyard as fast as possible, and Will of the Sultai is one of the cheapest ways to mill two and draw one in a single spell — it fills the bin while keeping your hand stocked, which is exactly the engine Teval needs online by turn three.
Tifa Lockhart
Tifa Lockhart rewards cheap, efficient spells that do multiple things, and Will of the Sultai fits by turning a single two-mana instant into both a graveyard-stocking action and a cantrip — the card advantage is modest, but the density of effect for the cost aligns cleanly with what Tifa wants from her spell suite.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Will of the Sultai is a Commander card through and through — the graveyard synergies it feeds are most relevant in a 100-card singleton format where consistency hinges on redundancy and bin-stuffing matters more per card slot. In Legacy and Vintage, two mana for mill-two-draw-one is too slow and too low-impact against formats built around resolving threats or counters on turn one or two. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card adjacent format where it's legal and could see fringe play in graveyard-based shells, but the power ceiling there is still ceiling-capped by the format's pace. Stick to Commander, where Will of the Sultai earns its slot in any Sultai deck that wants its graveyard stocked.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.96 cheap tier
At $1.96, Will of the Sultai sits in the sweet spot where it's cheap enough to include without deliberation but priced above bulk, reflecting genuine demand from Teval builds. It's a staple-tier role player in one of the most-built commanders right now, so the price is stable — this isn't a card that spikes or crashes.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.