Cultivate
Sorcery
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Capenna Commander
- Price
- $0.77
- EDHREC rank
- #20
Cultivate is a staple for a reason: three mana gets a land onto the battlefield and another into your hand, fixing your colors and advancing your curve simultaneously. It slots into nearly every green Commander deck, from a stompy Atraxa, Praetors' Voice build to a budget The Swarmlord list, and the one real trade-off — sorcery speed at three mana in a format that's pushed toward two-mana ramp — is worth knowing but rarely worth a cut.
Where It Shines
Where the extra mana on turn one matters most
Big-mana shells like Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice runs four colors, and Cultivate's dual land grab — one entering untapped, one in hand — smooths out exactly the kind of greedy mana base that build demands. When your commander costs four pips across four colors, hitting your third and fourth land drops on time is the difference between proliferating on curve and stumbling.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Cultivate lives — it's one of the most-included green cards on EDHREC precisely because 100-card singleton decks need consistent color fixing, and Cultivate delivers two lands for three mana with no deck-building tax attached. In Pauper it's legal and occasionally appears in ramp-heavy green shells, though the format's faster clock makes three-mana sorceries harder to justify. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have access to it, but the competitive environments there demand either free mana or cheaper ramp, so Cultivate doesn't register. Pioneer is the same story — legal on paper, irrelevant in practice.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.77 bulk tier
At $0.77, Cultivate sits firmly in bulk territory despite being one of the highest-inclusion cards in the format, a function of how many times it's been reprinted across precons and sets. It's a safe buy at this price — ubiquity and reprint history keep it from spiking, so you're never overpaying.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.