Deep Wood
Instant
Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by attacking creatures.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #24037
Deep Wood is a one-mana green enchantment that turns each of your Forests into a source of colorless mana, effectively converting land taps into double-dipping utility for decks that want to flood the board with basics. The payoff is real in mono-green and heavy-green stompy shells, but it competes hard with better mana doublers and land-value pieces that do more for a similar investment.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Deep Wood is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its relevant home is Commander — the only format where you're consistently running a Forest-heavy basic package and have the game length to extract value from a passive enchantment. In Legacy and Vintage, one mana for a do-nothing-until-you-attack enchantment doesn't clear the bar when those formats are ending games on turns one through three. Commander is where Deep Wood has a plausible argument: mono-green landfall and big-mana decks that run twenty-plus Forests can squeeze meaningful acceleration out of it over a long game. Even there, it's fighting for the same slot as Burgeoning, Exploration, and other redundant land-drop effects that generate immediate board impact.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Deep Wood sits firmly in bulk territory — low enough that picking it up is nearly free if it fits your build. Bulk enchantments with narrow applications rarely appreciate unless a new commander pushes their specific synergy into the spotlight, so treat this as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.