Druidic Satchel
Artifact
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: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. If it's a land card, put that card onto the battlefield under your control. If it's a noncreature, nonland card, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2021
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #9876
Druidic Satchel generates a land, a 1/1 Saproling, or 3 life every turn depending on the top card of your library — incremental value that compounds over a long game but never threatens to win it. Three mana to cast and one to activate is a slow clock, and in any pod moving faster than midrange, you'll wish it were something else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slimefoot, the Stowaway
Slimefoot, the Stowaway drains opponents whenever a Saproling dies, so every Saproling Druidic Satchel generates is both a blocker and a damage-and-life-swing waiting to happen — the Satchel's otherwise modest token output becomes a repeatable drain trigger stapled to your artifact slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Druidic Satchel is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, three mana for a slow value engine that doesn't affect the board immediately is unplayable — those formats end before the Satchel pays off. In Modern the bar for three-mana artifacts is similarly unforgiving. Commander is the only format where the Satchel's slow, cumulative output is tolerated, and even there it's a fringe choice — you're running it specifically because your deck rewards every land drop and every Saproling, not as general value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Druidic Satchel is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a specific synergy piece at near-zero cost. That price is stable; there's no competitive demand to drive it up, and any reprint would barely move the needle from here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.