Elvish Farmer
Creature — Elf
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature.
Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Sacrifice a Saproling: You gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $2.65
- EDHREC rank
- #14761
Elvish Farmer turns Saproling tokens into life gain on a repeatable, low-investment body — the payoff is real in any deck that floods the board with fungus fodder. Slimefoot, the Stowaway wants exactly this drain-loop density, and Yedora, Grave Gardener can recycle the sacrificed tokens into land drops, making Elvish Farmer a quiet engine piece rather than a throwaway one-drop.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slimefoot, the Stowaway
Slimefoot, the Stowaway drains opponents every time a Saproling dies, so Elvish Farmer's sacrifice outlet doubles as both a life-gain engine and a free trigger machine — every Saproling you feed it pings the table and pads your total simultaneously.
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 |
Elvish Farmer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have long since left two-mana life-gain creatures behind — the card simply doesn't clear the power bar those formats demand. Commander is where Elvish Farmer actually earns a slot, specifically in Saproling and fungus decks that generate token fodder faster than they can spend it. Outside of tribal synergy contexts, the effect is too narrow to justify the slot in most Commander builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Yedora, Grave GardenerLife and LimbElvish Farmer
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Vorel of the Hull CladeIntruder AlarmElvish Farmer
Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite proliferate for artifacts, creatures, and lands; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Current price
$2.65 cheap tier
At $2.65, Elvish Farmer sits in cheap territory — low enough that slotting it into a Saproling build costs less than a draft booster. It's a niche card with a stable, modest price driven entirely by Commander demand, so don't expect the number to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.