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Bramble Sovereign

Creature — Dryad

Whenever another nontoken creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Battle for Baldur's Gate Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4868
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Bramble Sovereign card art
Bramble Sovereign turns every nontoken creature entering the battlefield into a fork — pay two mana, get a token copy, no questions asked. The cost is a four-mana 4/4 with no enters-the-battlefield trigger of its own, so it lives or dies by the creatures you're running alongside it; pair it with something like Astral Dragon and you're doubling dragons that themselves make copies, or slot it into Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds and every populate trigger gets a second target before it even resolves.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds

Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds

43.9% of decks · synergy 0.43

Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds copies creatures on attack, and Bramble Sovereign means those creatures were already doubled before combat — the populate engine then has fatter, more populated options to work with every subsequent turn.

02
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.34

Trostani, Selesnya's Voice gains life equal to the power of each creature entering under your control, so Bramble Sovereign turning one fatty into two means every big creature entry triggers lifegain twice and populates from a larger pool.

03
Ghired, Conclave Exile

Ghired, Conclave Exile

22.7% of decks · synergy 0.22

Ghired, Conclave Exile puts a Rhino token into play on attack, and Bramble Sovereign lets you pay two mana to immediately double that Rhino before Ghired's populate trigger even needs to fire.

04
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

16.0% of decks · synergy 0.15

Adrix and Nev, Twincasters already doubles token creation, so Bramble Sovereign's activated copy stacks with that replacement effect — a single creature entering can cascade into three or four tokens in short order.

05
Riku of Two Reflections

Riku of Two Reflections

12.5% of decks · synergy 0.12

Riku of Two Reflections copies spells and creatures through different mechanisms, and Bramble Sovereign adds a third axis — stacking Riku's creature-copy trigger with Bramble Sovereign's payment means even a modest curve-topper generates a board on its own.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Bramble Sovereign is a Commander card through and through — the four-mana investment and the need for a steady stream of nontoken creatures to copy make it deeply dependent on the longer game and multiplayer threat density that Commander provides. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it's a non-starter: four mana for a 4/4 that does nothing the turn it lands is miles behind the format's power curve, and there are no token-synergy engines there worth enabling. Commander is where Bramble Sovereign earns its slot, specifically in creature-heavy decks that can chain multiple enters-the-battlefield triggers per turn and leverage the copies before an opponent can answer the Sovereign itself.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Bramble Sovereign isn't available in this context, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. It's seen enough Commander play — particularly in Ghired and Trostani builds — that demand keeps it from bottoming out, but it's also not a staple that crosses color identities, which tends to cap the ceiling.

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