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Compost

Enchantment

Whenever a black card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may draw a card.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Seventh Edition
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#9315
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Compost card art
Compost turns every black card your opponents put in their graveyards into a free card draw — at one green mana, enchantment, and done. In a four-player Commander pod, that trigger fires constantly; against Rendmaw, Creaking Nest decks or any black-heavy table, it can draw you five or more cards a game without another mana investment, which is an obscene return on a one-drop.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

15.7% of decks · synergy 0.15

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest mills and sacrifices black creatures as part of its core loop, which means Compost sits in the exact seat it wants — watching Rendmaw feed the graveyard and converting every black card that lands there into raw card advantage for you.

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

Compost is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is where it does the most damage. Black is the most-played color in the format, so a resolved Compost at a typical table is rarely blank, and in pods with two or three black players it becomes a card-draw engine that costs you nothing after turn one. Legacy and Vintage see enough black spells to make it theoretically live, but those formats move too fast and the graveyard payoff depends on opponents' choices rather than your own — unreliable at that speed. Oathbreaker lands somewhere in between: black is common but pod size is smaller, so the trigger volume is lower than in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't currently available for Compost, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for live numbers. Given its narrow but real niche in Commander — high synergy ceiling, low mana cost, enchantment-based durability — it tends to attract modest casual demand without breaking the bank.

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