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Carpet of Flowers

Enchantment

At the beginning of each of your main phases, if you haven't added mana with this ability this turn, you may add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Islands target opponent controls.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Doctor Who
Price
$3.26
EDHREC rank
#1172
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Carpet of Flowers card art
Carpet of Flowers is one of the best one-mana ramp pieces ever printed — in a pod with even a single blue player, it routinely taps for two or three mana a turn starting the moment it hits the table. The cost is real: it does nothing in a mono-red or mono-black pod, so you're betting on blue being present, a safe assumption in most Commander metas where Weaver of Harmony and Etali, Primal Conqueror both draw players to the color.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Etali, Primal Conqueror

31.4% of decks · synergy 0.28

Etali, Primal Conqueror costs eight mana, and Carpet of Flowers is the kind of asymmetric ramp that gets you there while opponents stall — in any blue-heavy pod, it can single-handedly accelerate your timeline by two or three turns.

02
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

29.7% of decks · synergy 0.27

Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood sits in Simic, a color pair that already leans into mana accumulation, and Carpet of Flowers slots in as a zero-opportunity-cost include — it fuels the high-mana turns Xolatoyac needs without competing for enchantment slots that matter more.

03
Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Tayam, Luminous Enigma

21.4% of decks · synergy 0.19

Tayam, Luminous Enigma runs a tight engine that demands consistent mana and a low curve of permanents, and Carpet of Flowers is a one-mana enchantment that feeds both the ramp requirement and Tayam's counter-based recursion condition.

04
Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

21.2% of decks · synergy 0.18

Sythis, Harvest's Hand draws a card every time an enchantment enters, so Carpet of Flowers pulls double duty — it triggers the draw engine on cast and then generates mana for every subsequent enchantment the deck wants to chain.

05
Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

18.9% of decks · synergy 0.17

Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer requires ramping into a specific mana total to tutor creatures at the right power level, and Carpet of Flowers provides the kind of flexible, scalable green mana that makes hitting those thresholds consistently possible.

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

Commander is where Carpet of Flowers lives — four-player pods almost always include at least one blue deck, which means the enchantment is rarely a blank and frequently outperforms two-mana ramp spells by turn three or four. In Legacy and Vintage, it sees fringe sideboard play in green stompy shells as hate against blue control, where a resolved Carpet can generate enough mana advantage to overwhelm a Force of Will deck; it's not a format staple but it's legitimate in that slot. It's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so outside of Commander and the oldest constructed formats, it simply doesn't exist as an option. Oathbreaker follows Commander's multiplayer dynamic closely enough that the same logic applies — if your pod runs blue, Carpet of Flowers earns its slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.26 cheap tier

At $3.26, Carpet of Flowers sits at the low end of genuinely powerful Commander staples — you're paying less than a draft rare for a card that regularly outperforms Sol Ring in blue-heavy metas. The price is stable for a card with this level of play pattern; it's not going to get cheaper, and any reprint would have to be deliberate given how narrow the card is.

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