Genju of the Fields
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant Plains
: Until end of turn, enchanted Plains becomes a 2/5 white Spirit creature with "Whenever this creature deals damage, its controller gains that much life." It's still a land.
When enchanted Plains is put into a graveyard, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24574
Genju of the Fields animates a Plains into a 2/5 Spirit for two mana at instant speed, giving you a relevant blocker or attacker that dodges most land destruction by bouncing back to hand when it dies. The ceiling is real in lifegain-matters builds, but a 2/5 with lifelink is a slow clock, and white has better enchantment-land payoffs at the same cost.
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, Genju of the Fields is a fringe inclusion in landfall or Spirit-tribal lists that also care about lifegain — commanders like Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn or Trelasarra, Moon Dancer can convert each combat trigger into meaningful life totals, but the card rarely makes the cut over more impactful enchantments. In Legacy and Vintage it sees essentially no play; the formats move too fast for a two-mana enchantment that produces a 2/5 and nothing else. Modern is theoretically legal but there's no competitive home for it. Genju of the Fields is a casual Commander card, full stop.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data isn't available for Genju of the Fields at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current listings. Given its narrow competitive application, it's almost certainly a bulk rare or close to it, making it a low-risk pickup if a specific lifegain-land deck is calling for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.