Spirit Cairn

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Spirit Cairn: Enchantment, Commander 2020. Whenever a player discards a card, you may pay W. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{W}
Mana value
3
Type
Enchantment
Colour identity
White (W)
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
Commander 2020 (C20)
Released
2020-04-17
Collector number
100
Artist
Noah Bradley
Commander rank
20,837 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Spirit Cairn

Spirit Cairn is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white enchantment from Commander 2020 (C20), a Commander product released in April 2020. It is collector number 100 in that set, with art by Noah Bradley. It costs {2}{W} (two generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Judgment (2002) to Commander 2020 (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.22 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Whenever a player discards a card, you may pay {W}. If you do, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

The most beautiful souls shine even in death.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.22 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Spirit Cairn by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PremodernLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PreDHLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Spirit Cairn

Spirit Cairn has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Ultimate Masters (UMA) #37Uncommon2018
Vintage Masters (VMA) #48Rare2014
Judgment (JUD) #26Uncommon2002

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to Spirit Cairn, newest first.

  • If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card (such as Spirit Cairn’s ability) trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.
  • You can’t pay {W} multiple times to create more than one token each time you resolve Spirit Cairn’s triggered ability.

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In these precons

Spirit Cairn is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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