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Blossoming Tortoise

Creature — Turtle

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, mill three cards, then return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Activated abilities of lands you control cost {1} less to activate.
Land creatures you control get +1/+1.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Wilds of Eldraine Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3031
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Blossoming Tortoise card art
Blossoming Tortoise reduces the activation cost of land abilities and untaps a land when it enters — on a 2/4 body for three mana, that's a lot of work for one card slot. Commanders that animate lands or generate value from tapping them, like Toph, the First Metalbender and Jyoti, Moag Ancient, turn the cost reduction into a repeatable mana engine rather than a one-time bonus.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jyoti, Moag Ancient

Jyoti, Moag Ancient

47.5% of decks · synergy 0.46

Jyoti, Moag Ancient creates Forest lands that tap for extra mana, and Blossoming Tortoise's cost reduction stacks with that — activating any special land abilities becomes nearly free while Jyoti's tokens flood the board.

02
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

47.8% of decks · synergy 0.45

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods cares about lands entering the battlefield, and Blossoming Tortoise's untap trigger feeds that loop by resetting a land the turn it drops, accelerating the engine immediately.

03
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

45.6% of decks · synergy 0.44

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir animates lands into creatures, and Blossoming Tortoise makes activating those creature-land abilities cheaper — every tapped animated land is a missed attack, so shaving that activation cost matters.

04
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

27.9% of decks · synergy 0.25

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic wants lands entering untapped while opponents' permanents enter tapped, and Blossoming Tortoise's untap trigger ensures at least one land hits the battlefield ready to use every turn it's out.

05
Six

Six

24.5% of decks · synergy 0.22

Six rewards running high-CMC permanents and filling the board with value pieces, and Blossoming Tortoise plugs in cleanly — the cost reduction on land activations translates directly into mana saved for Six's expensive threats.

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

In Commander, Blossoming Tortoise is a role-player rather than a staple — it earns its slot specifically in land-synergy builds that actually use activated abilities on lands, and it's close to unplayable in generic goodstuff piles. In Modern and Pioneer, dedicated landfall or Urza's Saga shells have experimented with it, but the payoff rarely justifies the three-mana investment against faster linear decks. Legacy and Vintage have access to too many broken mana accelerants for Blossoming Tortoise to compete. Standard is where the card showed the most breadth at release, pairing naturally with channel lands and utility lands in midrange green decks.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't available in the current feed for Blossoming Tortoise, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. It's a mythic rare with a real but narrow Commander audience, so expect pricing to reflect that specialist demand rather than broad staple appeal.

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