Fertile Imagination
Sorcery
Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals their hand. Create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dissension
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #19779
Fertile Imagination puts two 1/1 Saproling tokens on the battlefield for each basic land type among lands you control — ceiling of ten tokens if you're running all five types, floor of two if you're mono-colored. Five mana at sorcery speed is a real cost, and this card only earns its slot when you're reliably hitting four or five basic land types.
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 |
Fertile Imagination is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in Legacy, Modern, and Vintage won't touch it — five-mana sorceries that make 1/1s don't exist in those formats outside fringe casual tables. Commander is the only home that makes sense, and even there Fertile Imagination needs a five-color or heavily domain-flavored deck to justify the slot; in two- or three-color builds the token yield rarely clears six, which is where the card starts pulling ahead of cheaper alternatives. Oathbreaker is technically legal but faces the same math — unless your signature spell or planeswalker builds around tokens at scale, the ceiling rarely gets unlocked.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Fertile Imagination is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. That price is stable because demand is narrow: it only overperforms in five-color token lists, and even those builds often prefer redundancy elsewhere.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.