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Goldberry, River-Daughter

Legendary Creature — Nymph

{T}: Move a counter of each kind not on Goldberry from another target permanent you control onto Goldberry.
{U}, {T}: Move one or more counters from Goldberry onto another target permanent you control. If you do, draw a card.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$0.75
EDHREC rank
#4814
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Goldberry, River-Daughter card art
Goldberry, River-Daughter puts a free Aura on the battlefield every turn cycle — the cost is building around Auras, which most enchantment decks already want to do. Pair her with Thornbite Staff and you have a repeatable tap-and-untap engine; slot her into Tom Bombadil and she's pulling double duty as both engine and Aura delivery.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tom Bombadil

Tom Bombadil

67.0% of decks · synergy 0.65

Tom Bombadil triggers off every Aura entering the battlefield, and Goldberry, River-Daughter puts one into play for free each turn — that's a guaranteed card draw and saga advance without spending a card or mana.

02
Me, the Immortal

Me, the Immortal

44.5% of decks · synergy 0.44

Me, the Immortal wants a critical mass of legendary permanents to copy effects, and Goldberry, River-Daughter is a legendary creature who fuels the enchantment density that shell needs to function.

04
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied

Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied

17.6% of decks · synergy 0.16

Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied cares about enchantments entering and generating value from them repeatedly, making Goldberry, River-Daughter a consistent free trigger source that doesn't require card investment.

05
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

13.0% of decks · synergy 0.13

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus proliferates counters, and Goldberry, River-Daughter's ability places counters that can be proliferated — the synergy is incremental but real in a shell already built around accumulating counters.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Goldberry, River-Daughter actually gets to live — her ability fires once per turn cycle, which is painfully slow in 1v1 formats but perfectly paced across a four-player table where you see three extra turns between your own. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but completely irrelevant; a three-mana 2/4 with no immediate board impact doesn't register in formats where speed is measured in single digits of mana. Oathbreaker is the one exception worth noting: as a planeswalker-adjacent enchantment deck piece, she can slot in under the right signature spell and contribute meaningfully to an enchantress-style build. Stick to Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.75 bulk tier

At $0.75, Goldberry, River-Daughter is bulk — she costs almost nothing to acquire despite seeing play in nearly 20,000 Tom Bombadil decks. That price is unlikely to move much; she's not a breakout combo piece outside of dedicated enchantment builds, and supply keeps her pinned at the floor.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.