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Brandywine Farmer

Creature — Halfling Peasant

When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#12987
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Brandywine Farmer card art
Brandywine Farmer enters the battlefield and immediately puts a basic land into play tapped — real mana fixing and ramp on a creature body, no spell slot required. The ceiling jumps considerably once you introduce Infinite Reflection or pair it with The Cabbage Merchant, where repeated ETB triggers turn that humble land-drop into an engine. Bulk rate for what it does.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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The Cabbage Merchant

The Cabbage Merchant

15.5% of decks · synergy 0.15

The Cabbage Merchant cares about creatures with the same name entering repeatedly, and Brandywine Farmer's land-fetch ETB means every copy that triggers also advances your mana — making it one of the most productive targets for the engine rather than a filler body.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Brandywine Farmer earns its slot in any deck that wants to chain ETB triggers or copy effects, and it's a natural fit for The Cabbage Merchant builds specifically. Pauper is where it sees the most focused competitive use — a three-mana 2/2 that fetches a basic is a real card at common, particularly in green creature shells that want density over efficiency. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; the effect is too slow for those formats. Brandywine Farmer is essentially a Commander and Pauper card, and it does honest work in both.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Brandywine Farmer sits firmly in bulk territory — you're not paying a premium for the combo ceiling, just picking up a functional piece at near-zero cost. Bulk cards with specific combo homes tend to stay cheap unless the commander driving demand spikes, so grab it now if you need it and don't think twice about the price.

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