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Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life

Creature — Human Monk // Legendary Creature — Human Monk

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you control ten or more lands, flip this creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$0.64
EDHREC rank
#11199
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Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life card art
Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life puts a land-drop engine on a two-mana body and flips into a 4/4 that fabricates 10/10 Elementals — the ceiling is absurd. The cost is that you need two land drops per turn consistently, which makes it a build-around rather than a free include, and without something like Retreat to Coralhelm to chain triggers, it flips slowly.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life is worth building around — the flip condition demands a dedicated lands strategy, and the 100-card singleton format gives you the space to assemble it. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; a two-mana creature that needs setup to generate value has no place in those formats' threat hierarchies. Modern sees it the same way: the payoff is too slow and the flip too conditional against faster, more resilient threats. Oathbreaker is legal and theoretically hospitable to a lands-matter shell, but the smaller deck size makes the build-around harder to support consistently.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.64 bulk tier

At $0.64, Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life sits firmly in bulk territory, which is surprising given how powerful the Dokai side is in a dedicated lands deck. The price is stable — it's not a card that spikes, but it's also not going to zero, and picking up copies now costs almost nothing.

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