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Arboreal Grazer

Creature — Sloth Beast

Reach
When this creature enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Ravnica Remastered
Price
$0.41
EDHREC rank
#2279
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Arboreal Grazer card art
Arboreal Grazer puts an extra land into play on turn one — that's the whole pitch, and it's a strong one. The cost is real: you're down a card and the Grazer itself is a 0/3 that does nothing without a land in hand. Commanders like Myojin of Cryptic Dreams and Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant that want explosive early mana or benefit from having creatures with specific stats will find it worth the trade; everyone else should ask whether they need the speed badly enough.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant

Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant

69.2% of decks · synergy 0.67

Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant cares about untapped creatures with reach, and Arboreal Grazer is a one-mana reach creature that also accelerates into Tadeas a full turn early — it does double duty as both an enabler and a mana play.

02
Felothar the Steadfast

Felothar the Steadfast

53.1% of decks · synergy 0.45

Felothar the Steadfast rewards running a wide range of creature types, and Arboreal Grazer slots in as cheap, incidental acceleration that also contributes to the creature-diversity count Felothar wants.

03
Sergeant John Benton

Sergeant John Benton

42.6% of decks · synergy 0.40

Sergeant John Benton decks lean on low-cost creatures to fill the board quickly, and Arboreal Grazer's one-mana entry point with a 0/3 body fits the curve while accelerating toward the deck's bigger threats.

05
The Pride of Hull Clade

The Pride of Hull Clade

28.1% of decks · synergy 0.26

The Pride of Hull Clade builds around +1/+1 counters and large base-power creatures, and Arboreal Grazer's reach body is an early blocker that also ramps into the deck's heavier payoffs on curve.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Arboreal Grazer is a narrow role-player — run it in decks that specifically reward reaching three or four mana on turn two, or that care about reach creatures as a subtype. In Pauper, it sees genuine play in landfall and ramp shells where the one-mana land-drop is a meaningful tempo swing rather than a luxury. Modern and Pioneer have largely moved past it; faster cantrips and more efficient ramp exist at the same cost, and Arboreal Grazer's card disadvantage is punishing in those formats. Legacy and Vintage have no real use for it given the density of broken acceleration available. The honest assessment: Arboreal Grazer is a format-specific card that earns its slot in a short list of contexts and is dead weight everywhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.41 bulk tier

At $0.41, Arboreal Grazer is deep bulk — there's no price barrier to testing it, and no reason to hesitate on a pickup if the deck calls for it. Bulk commons at this price point don't move much in either direction, so buy it for the effect, not any expectation of appreciation.

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