Acorn Harvest
Sorcery
Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
Flashback—
, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $1.07
- EDHREC rank
- #12277
Acorn Harvest puts four 1/1 Squirrel tokens on the board for four mana — acceptable rate on its own, but the flashback is what makes it a two-for-one over the course of a game. In Chatterfang, Squirrel General decks specifically, those four tokens become eight, and suddenly a four-mana sorcery is generating a serious board presence twice.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Chatterfang, Squirrel General
Every token Acorn Harvest produces triggers Chatterfang, Squirrel General's doubling effect, turning each cast into eight bodies — and with flashback, that's sixteen Squirrels from a single card slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Acorn Harvest is a role-player, not a staple — it earns its slot in Squirrel tribal and token-doubler shells but has no business in decks that aren't built around go-wide token synergies. Pauper is where Acorn Harvest has historically seen the most competitive consideration, since four tokens across two casts is a legitimate threat at common rarity in a format with restrained removal. Legacy and Vintage technically allow it, but the card is far too slow and low-impact to compete there. It's not Modern or Pioneer legal, which is where most token strategies live today at the 60-card level.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.07 cheap tier
At $1.07, Acorn Harvest sits at the low end of the cheap tier — fair for a narrow card with a real but limited audience. It's not a price that should give you pause if you're building the right deck, and it's unlikely to spike unless Squirrel tribal gets a major new piece.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.