Is Evolutionary Leap good in Commander?

Evolutionary Leap in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Evolutionary Leap turns any creature into a fresh one for a single green mana — repeatable, instant-speed filtering that doubles as sacrifice outlet. In Yedora, Grave Gardener specifically, every creature you sacrifice this way comes back as a Forest, feeding the engine right back into itself.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Yedora, Grave Gardener

56.8% of decks · synergy 0.55

Yedora, Grave Gardener is the definitive home: Evolutionary Leap sacrifices a creature, Yedora returns it as a tapped Forest, and you've traded a body for a land and whatever creature you just found — the loop is self-sustaining with any redundant creature on board.

02

Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods

53.4% of decks · synergy 0.52

Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods wants a steady pipeline of Forests into creatures and creatures into more value, and Evolutionary Leap feeds that rhythm by converting expendable bodies into the next threat while keeping the creature count high enough to keep Yarus relevant.

03

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

30.2% of decks · synergy 0.29

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher runs high creature density to reward attacking, so Evolutionary Leap slots in as both a sacrifice outlet for creatures that would otherwise die to removal and a way to churn deeper into the deck mid-combat.

04

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

31.4% of decks · synergy 0.28

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre blitzes creatures into play with the intent of sacrificing them at end of turn anyway, so Evolutionary Leap converts those scheduled deaths into new creatures rather than letting them simply vanish to the graveyard.

05

Brenard, Ginger Sculptor

21.6% of decks · synergy 0.21

Brenard, Ginger Sculptor creates Golem tokens when nontoken creatures die, meaning Evolutionary Leap effectively reads: pay G, sacrifice a creature, get a Golem token, put a new creature into play — raw value on a one-mana enchantment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Evolutionary Leap is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it finds its best home by a wide margin in Commander. In 100-card singleton, the ability to trade any creature for a random one is far more powerful — the larger deck size means more threat density to hit, and the multiplayer lifespan gives the enchantment time to generate meaningful card advantage. In competitive Legacy and Vintage, one green mana for a non-guaranteed creature isn't close to efficient enough to compete with the raw power level of those formats. Modern and Pioneer are similarly unkind — the card is too slow and too random for formats where your engine needs to fire on a tight timeline.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,252 decks

Yedora, Grave Gardener Temur ChargerEvolutionary Leap

Infinite death triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Put all creature cards from your library into your hand

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1,110 decks

Yedora, Grave Gardener Proteus MachineEvolutionary Leap

Infinite death triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Put all creature cards from your library into your hand

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636 decks

Yedora, Grave GardenerEvolutionary LeapNervous GardenerTireless Provisioner

Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all creature cards from your library into your hand; Put all lands with a basic land type from your library into your hand

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544 decks

Yedora, Grave GardenerEvolutionary LeapNervous GardenerLotus Cobra

Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all creature cards from your library into your hand; Put all lands with a basic land type from your library into your hand

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266 decks

Yedora, Grave GardenerEvolutionary LeapTireless Provisioner Branchsnap Lorian

Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all creature cards from your library into your hand

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Evolutionary Leap isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest figure. Historically it's sat in the $1–3 range as a casual-demand uncommon, making it an easy pickup if you're building any of the creature-sacrifice or creature-chain commanders it supports.