Winding Constrictor
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead.
If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.
Combos with Winding Constrictor
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Mycosynth Lattice Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
- Triskelion Scythe of the Wretched Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Magistrate's Scepter Contagion Engine Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Mindless Automaton Lyla, Holographic Assistant Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Rite of Passage Walking Ballista Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Aethergeode Miner Aetherstorm Roc Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Inspirit, Flagship Vessel Magistrate's Scepter Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2017-02-09
If you would get counters of multiple kinds at the same time, Winding Constrictor increases the number of each of those kinds of counters by one. The same is true if counters of multiple kinds would be placed on an artifact or creature you control.
- 2017-02-09
If an artifact or creature you control would enter the battlefield with a number of any kind of counters on it, it enters with that many plus one instead.
- 2017-02-09
If an effect includes multiple instructions to put one or more counters on an artifact or creature, such as Lifecrafter's Gift does, Winding Constrictor's effect applies to each of those instructions.
- 2017-02-09
Winding Constrictor's effect can't apply to itself as it's entering the battlefield or to any other permanent entering the battlefield at the same time as it.
- 2017-02-09
If you control two Winding Constrictors, the number of counters placed on the artifact or creature is the original number plus two. Three Winding Constrictors adds three to the original number, and so on.
- 2017-09-29
If a nonartifact, noncreature permanent (such as a planeswalker) would enter the battlefield with counters on it and become an artifact or a creature on the battlefield due to another card's effect (such as that of Mycosynth Lattice), Winding Constrictor's effect will give that permanent another of those counters.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Winding Constrictor, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| the wise mothman | 3 | 0 | — |
| Olag and Miau, New Friends | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Sultai 3 decks
- Abzan 1 deck
Winding Constrictor price history
The Aether Revolt #140 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2026 | $0.48 | $2.70 |
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.47 | $2.70 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $0.48 | $2.70 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $0.48 | $2.75 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.49 | $2.75 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | $0.48 | $2.62 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $0.46 | $2.62 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.46 | $2.44 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.45 | $2.44 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.42 | $2.44 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.43 | $2.44 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.44 | $2.44 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.42 | $2.44 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.43 | $2.44 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.44 | $2.44 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.45 | $2.44 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.46 | $2.39 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.45 | $2.39 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.46 | $2.39 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.47 | $2.37 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.46 | $2.37 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.45 | $2.37 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.46 | $2.37 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.47 | $2.37 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.47 | $2.23 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.48 | $2.23 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.54 | $2.23 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Winding Constrictor
5 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. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.44
- Foil
- $7.52
- Foil
- $22.93
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $8.01
- Etched
- $5.41
- Normal
- $0.83
- Normal
- $0.48
- Foil
- $2.70
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Winding Constrictor. 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.
