Is Chocobo Racetrack good in Commander?

Chocobo Racetrack

Artifact

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 2/2 green Bird creature token with "Whenever a land you control enters, this token gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

CMC: 5
Mana cost
Color identity: G
Rarity: uncommon
Set: Final Fantasy
Price: $0.28
EDHREC rank: #3617

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Chocobo Racetrack puts a land into play tapped — that's the whole on-board impact, and it costs three mana to do it, which is where the conversation gets complicated. Outside of dedicated landfall or triggered-ability shells like Kodama of the East Tree, the rate is too slow; inside them, and especially as a near-staple alongside Choco, Seeker of Paradise, the free land trigger is the engine, not the spell.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Choco, Seeker of Paradise

85.5% of decks · synergy 0.78

Chocobo Racetrack appears in over 85% of Choco, Seeker of Paradise decks because it directly feeds the commander's mount-and-ride payoffs while triggering landfall repeatedly — it's essentially a thematic auto-include that also does real mechanical work.

The Wandering Minstrel

27.6% of decks · synergy 0.26

The Wandering Minstrel's top-of-library manipulation pairs well with Chocobo Racetrack as a reliable landfall trigger that keeps mana development on track while the deck cycles through its engine.

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

18.9% of decks · synergy 0.17

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign cares about creature types and graveyard recursion, and Chocobo Racetrack earns its slot here by providing a consistent, repeatable way to hit land drops without spending a card's worth of resource.

Tifa Lockhart

19.5% of decks · synergy 0.16

Tifa Lockhart rewards aggressive combat math, and Chocobo Racetrack slots in as reliable mana fixing and a landfall trigger that keeps the engine running while Tifa pushes through damage.

Zimone and Dina

10.6% of decks · synergy 0.10

Zimone and Dina want every land drop to matter, and Chocobo Racetrack delivers a clean, costed trigger that feeds the drain-and-draw loop without requiring any additional setup.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Chocobo Racetrack is legal in every major constructed format — Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — but sees meaningful play almost exclusively in Commander, where the three-mana cost for a tapped land is tolerable in a 40-life, 100-card environment that rewards incremental advantage. In faster constructed formats like Modern and Legacy, three mana for a land that enters tapped is simply unplayable; those formats solved land ramp at one and two mana a long time ago. Commander is where Chocobo Racetrack earns its keep, specifically in landfall and triggered-ability decks where the land-entering-the-battlefield event is itself the payoff, not just the mana it produces. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander at a smaller table — viable in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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