Owlin Spiralmancer
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you cast your first spell with X in its mana cost each turn, you may copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Rulings
10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2026-03-20
Any choices made when the spell resolves won't have been made yet when it's copied. Any such choices will be made separately when the copy resolves.
- 2026-03-20
If you cast your first spell with X in its mana cost during a turn before Owlin Spiralmancer is on the battlefield, casting another spell with X in its mana cost later in the turn won't cause its last ability to trigger.
- 2026-03-20
You can't choose to pay any additional costs for a copied spell. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too.
- 2026-03-20
The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
- 2026-03-20
A resolving copy of a permanent spell becomes a token. That token isn't "created" and won't interact with abilities that care about tokens being created.
- 2026-03-20
If a spell with a converge ability is copied, no mana was spent to cast the copy, so the number of colors of mana spent to cast the spell will be zero. The number of colors spent to cast the original spell is not copied.
- 2026-03-20
If the copied spell divides damage or distributes counters among a number of targets, the division and number of targets can't be changed. If you choose new targets, you must choose the same number of targets.
- 2026-03-20
The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.
- 2026-03-20
If the spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X.
- 2026-03-20
If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Owlin Spiralmancer, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimone, Infinite Analyst | 3 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Simic 3 decks
Every version of Owlin Spiralmancer
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.34
Extended Art
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.41
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Owlin Spiralmancer. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
