Diligent Farmhand
Creature — Human Druid
, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
If this card is in a graveyard, effects from spells named Muscle Burst count it as a card named Muscle Burst.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #11405
Diligent Farmhand is a one-mana creature that fetches a basic land and puts it into play — the same effect as Harrow stapled to a body that can block or trigger creature-matters synergies before it dies. The activation cost of sacrificing it is a feature in graveyard and aristocrats builds, not a drawback.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Diligent Farmhand fills the slot of a cheap, functional ramp piece that doubles as a sacrifice outlet and graveyard enabler — it's never the flashiest card in the 99, but it does honest work in any green deck that wants bodies or cares about creatures entering and leaving the battlefield. In Pauper, it competes directly with Elvish Mystic and Llanowar Elves for the one-drop ramp slot, and its tap-to-activate speed means it loses that race in aggressive shells; it finds a home in slower, sacrifice-heavy lists instead. Legacy and Vintage have no practical use for Diligent Farmhand — the power floor in those formats is simply too high for a creature that takes two mana and a turn to produce a land.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Diligent Farmhand is bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a common box without thinking twice. It's a stable, low-demand uncommon that's unlikely to spike, so there's no urgency to acquiring copies beyond whatever your deck needs right now.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.