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Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist

Legendary Creature — Vampire Druid

Deathtouch
Whenever a creature you control with power or toughness 1 or less dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#13030
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Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist card art
Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist turns every creature death into a free land drop, which in the right shell means you're accelerating your mana base while your opponents lose their boards. The catch is that it cares about your creatures dying, so it needs a steady sacrifice engine — Trudge Garden or Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker aren't just synergies, they're prerequisites.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

30.8% of decks · synergy 0.28

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker repeatedly returns 1-power creatures from the graveyard, and Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist converts each of those death triggers into a land — meaning the loop that Shirei wants to run anyway also ramps you aggressively every turn cycle.

03
Beledros Witherbloom

Beledros Witherbloom

19.0% of decks · synergy 0.15

Beledros Witherbloom pays life to untap lands, and Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist keeps that land count climbing by cashing in creature deaths — the two cards form a self-reinforcing mana engine inside the same Golgari shell.

04
Xira, the Golden Sting

Xira, the Golden Sting

10.7% of decks · synergy 0.10

Xira, the Golden Sting puts Egg tokens into play that are built to be sacrificed for card draw, and Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist layers a land-ramp trigger on top of each sacrifice so you're drawing cards and developing your mana simultaneously.

05
Prossh, Skyraider of Kher

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher

9.9% of decks · synergy 0.09

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher enters with a swarm of Kobold tokens that feed sacrifice outlets immediately, and Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist converts those deaths into lands — smoothing the mana needed to recast Prossh after the inevitable removal.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the format where Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist actually matters — 100-card singleton games go long enough for repeated death triggers to translate into a meaningful land advantage, and the density of sacrifice synergies in black-green makes the ability consistently live. In competitive 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, it's a three-mana 2/3 with a situational upside that rarely triggers reliably enough to justify a slot over dedicated ramp spells. Standard gives it the most charitable non-Commander context since creature-heavy midrange shells exist, but even there the payoff is slow and conditional compared to just running more lands. Outside Commander, treat Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist as unplayed.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a price site. It's a narrow enough card that demand will stay low outside of dedicated sacrifice commanders, so don't expect movement in either direction.

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