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Ancient Greenwarden

Creature — Elemental

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
You may play lands from your graveyard.
If a land entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Zendikar Rising Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#660
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Ancient Greenwarden card art
Ancient Greenwarden doubles every landfall trigger you generate and lets you play lands from your graveyard — on a single six-mana body, that's a full engine, not just a value piece. Decks built around land recursion loops, like anything running Walk the Aeons or helmed by Yuma, Proud Protector, treat it as a mandatory four-of equivalent: when it's on board, every land drop does twice the work.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yuma, Proud Protector

Yuma, Proud Protector

80.0% of decks · synergy 0.75

Yuma, Proud Protector mills lands into the graveyard as a core mechanic, and Ancient Greenwarden turns every one of those replayed lands into two Desert tokens instead of one — the inclusion rate above 80% reflects just how central that doubling is to the deck's go-wide plan.

02
Omnath, Locus of the Roil

Omnath, Locus of the Roil

64.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

Omnath, Locus of the Roil triggers on every land entering the battlefield, so Ancient Greenwarden's doubling effect converts each land drop into two damage pings, two card draws, or two +1/+1 counters depending on creature count — the rate of return is immediate and compounding.

03
Omnath, Locus of Rage

Omnath, Locus of Rage

66.7% of decks · synergy 0.61

Omnath, Locus of Rage produces a 5/5 Elemental for each landfall trigger, and Ancient Greenwarden means every land you play or recur generates two of them — a board that doubles in size per land drop is exactly the kind of pressure this version of Omnath wants.

04
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

61.3% of decks · synergy 0.56

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand cares about Desert lands entering the battlefield to make Sand Warrior tokens, and Ancient Greenwarden doubles those triggers so each Desert produces twice the army — in a dedicated Desert build, that scales fast enough to end games.

05
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer

Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer

65.1% of decks · synergy 0.54

Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer creates a Badger token whenever a land enters under your control, so Ancient Greenwarden converts every single land drop into two Badgers — the synergy is about as direct as it gets, and it explains why over 65% of Greensleeves lists run it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Ancient Greenwarden lives — the 100-card format gives you the ramp, the land-recursion payoffs, and the time to untap with a six-mana creature, and the doubling effect compounds hard over the course of a long game. In competitive EDH it's too slow and too fragile without protection, but in mid-power and high-power casual pods it regularly takes over games the turn it resolves. Ancient Greenwarden is legal in Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, but six mana for a value creature with no immediate board impact doesn't fit any of those formats' timelines — you won't see it outside of Commander.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Ancient Greenwarden isn't currently available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given its role as a near-staple in multiple high-population commanders — Hazezon, Yuma, both Omaths — it tends to hold value, so don't expect to find it in bulk bins.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.