Gnottvold Slumbermound
Land
This land enters tapped.
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, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Create a 4/4 green Troll Warrior creature token with trample.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #17012
Gnottvold Slumbermound enters tapped and produces a 4/4 Troll token when it leaves — a land that replaces itself with a body, at the cost of coming in tapped and costing five mana to crack. That enters-tapped tax plus the five-mana activation makes it too slow for most competitive tables, but in any deck that actively wants to sacrifice or recur lands, the token is real upside stapled to a land slot. Svella, Ice Shaper decks run it because the Troll feeds sacrifice synergies without spending a card.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Svella, Ice Shaper
Svella, Ice Shaper decks run Gnottvold Slumbermound because the Troll token it generates on exit lines up cleanly with Svella's Icy Manalith tokens and any sacrifice-based value engine the deck assembles — a land that eventually becomes a 4/4 is a free body in a shell that already wants expendable permanents.
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 |
Gnottvold Slumbermound is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Constructed formats have no real interest in a tapped land that costs five mana to convert into a 4/4 — faster payoffs exist at every point on that curve. Commander is the only format where it sees genuine play, and even there the audience is narrow: landfall decks, land-sacrifice engines, and graveyard loops that can recur it. Outside those specific archetypes, the enters-tapped clause is a meaningful tempo loss that better utility lands avoid. Treat Gnottvold Slumbermound as a role-player for niche Commander builds, not a format staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Gnottvold Slumbermound is deep bulk — cheap enough to throw into any brew that can use it without a second thought. Don't expect the price to move; the card's narrow application keeps demand low and supply abundant.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Svella, Ice Shaper
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.