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Basking Rootwalla

Creature — Lizard

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#15803
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Basking Rootwalla card art
Basking Rootwalla is a free discard outlet that also pumps itself — the zero madness cost means it arrives on the board without spending mana the turn you pitch it. It occupies a narrow but real niche that Blazing Rootwalla duplicates at sorcery speed for aggro, while Flubs, the Fool turns the discard trigger into a direct engine piece.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Flubs, the Fool

Flubs, the Fool

11.8% of decks · synergy 0.11

Flubs, the Fool rewards you for casting spells with odd mana costs, and Basking Rootwalla's madness cost of zero is as odd as it gets — pitching it to any discard outlet lets you cast it for free and still trigger Flubs's ability, generating value without spending a mana.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Legacy and Vintage, Basking Rootwalla earned its reputation as a free threat stapled to Wild Mongrel and Careful Study, where dumping your hand for value was the whole point — it's legal in both but too slow for those formats' current texture. Pauper is where it still sees real play, slotting into madness and discard-synergy shells that want a free body on the board. In Commander, Basking Rootwalla is a role-player rather than a staple: discard-matters commanders like Flubs, the Fool make it worth the slot, but outside that lane it's too small to matter in a 40-life multiplayer game.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Basking Rootwalla is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not scarcity. Prices this low don't move unless a new Commander printing or a format-defining reprint spikes demand, so buy the copies you need and don't think twice about it.

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