Gaea's Liege
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As long as Gaea's Liege isn't attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control. As long as Gaea's Liege is attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests defending player controls.
: Target land becomes a Forest until this creature leaves the battlefield.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
- Price
- $3.00
- EDHREC rank
- #25206
Gaea's Liege turns every land you control into a Forest and pumps itself by that count — in the right deck, that's a 10/10 or bigger for six mana with land-type utility baked in. The cost is real: six mana, no immediate protection, and a base power/toughness of 0/0 means a single removal spell erases all of it.
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 |
In Commander, Gaea's Liege is a niche threat — playable in dedicated Forest-matters or land-type-manipulation decks, irrelevant everywhere else. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; six mana buys you Emrakul in Legacy, and Vintage has no interest in a vanilla-sized beater with no immediate impact. Modern is technically legal but practically invisible — the format's too fast and too interactive for a six-drop with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no built-in protection. Gaea's Liege is a Commander card in practice, full stop.
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Price Context
Current price
$3.00 cheap tier
At $3.00, Gaea's Liege sits in the cheap tier — fair for a card with a narrow home and low demand. It's an old card with limited reprint pressure and a small target audience, so the price is unlikely to move much in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.