Efflorescence

Instant

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
Infusion — If you gained life this turn, that creature also gains trample and indestructible until end of turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#21602
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Efflorescence card art
Efflorescence puts a persistent land-untap engine on the table for three mana — every land you play with a basic land type untaps itself, which in green means you're effectively getting your land drops for free. It's a sleeper piece in landfall and big-mana Commander decks that run a high density of Forests, Plains, or other typed lands.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Efflorescence is a Commander card through and through — the incremental value of untapping a land each turn compounds over a long game in ways that simply don't matter in faster formats. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, three mana for an enchantment that does nothing the turn it enters is unplayable; the formats move too fast and the card generates no immediate board presence. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where cheap engines occasionally find homes, but Efflorescence competes poorly there too, since green already has better mana acceleration at common. In Commander, it earns its slot in any deck where Dryad of the Ilysian Grove or Chromatic Lantern is making all your lands basic-typed, or in mono-green and Selesnya builds where the trigger fires naturally every single turn.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Efflorescence is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk enchantments with niche Commander applications rarely climb unless a high-profile deck pushes demand, so don't expect this to move.

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