Earth Surge
Enchantment
Each land gets +2/+2 as long as it's a creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Guildpact
- Price
- $1.66
- EDHREC rank
- #14688
Earth Surge turns every land you control into a 3/3 until end of turn — at instant speed, for two mana, at sorcery speed on the card but actually an instant — making it one of the most efficient surprise combat tricks in a land-matters shell. In decks built around Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir, where lands already become creatures, Earth Surge effectively acts as a mass pump that wins combats or closes games out of nowhere.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir animates lands into 1/1s at instant speed, and Earth Surge immediately upgrades that entire board to 3/3s — the combination is a two-card instant-speed alpha strike that opponents can't see coming until it's lethal.
Jyoti, Moag Ancient
Jyoti, Moag Ancient generates Forest creature tokens whenever lands enter, which means Earth Surge is pumping a wide battlefield rather than just base lands — the more tokens Jyoti has stacked up, the more damage Earth Surge pushes through in a single swing.
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 |
Earth Surge is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card in practice. Legacy and Modern have faster, more reliable ways to close games, and the payoff requires a board of animate lands that those formats simply don't support. In Commander, it slots cleanly into any green land-animation strategy — Jolrael, Jyoti, Kamahl — where it functions as both a combat trick and a finisher. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home too, especially alongside a planeswalker that generates land creatures.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.66 cheap tier
At $1.66, Earth Surge sits in the cheap tier — an easy inclusion that won't strain any budget. It's a niche card with a specific home, so the price is stable rather than climbing, but it's not dropping either.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.