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Golgari Rot Farm

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
BG
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Anthology Volume II
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#311
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Golgari Rot Farm card art
Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped and bounces a land — that's a real cost — but it produces two colors of mana and triggers landfall twice, which is the entire reason Kodama of the East Tree and Zimone and Dina shells keep reaching for it. Run it when your deck cares about the number of times a land hits the battlefield, not when it cares about speed.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zimone and Dina

Zimone and Dina

67.4% of decks · synergy 0.47

Zimone and Dina drains opponents whenever you draw beyond your first card each turn, and the bounce-land loop with Golgari Rot Farm lets you chain landfall triggers that draw cards, which feeds right back into the drain engine.

02
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

65.9% of decks · synergy 0.46

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic makes lands enter untapped while it's tapped, which strips the only real downside from Golgari Rot Farm and turns it into a free two-color source you can replay for repeated landfall value.

03
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

46.3% of decks · synergy 0.32

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch cares about permanents entering and leaving, so the self-bounce on Golgari Rot Farm generates a continuous stream of triggers every time you replay it.

04
Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Winter, Cynical Opportunist

70.6% of decks · synergy 0.31

Winter, Cynical Opportunist rewards you for playing lands on opponents' turns, and Golgari Rot Farm's bounce gives you a land to replay at instant speed via flash enablers, stretching one land into multiple trigger windows.

05
The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel

32.1% of decks · synergy 0.30

The Wandering Minstrel wants as many landfall triggers as possible to stockpile its counters, and Golgari Rot Farm's built-in bounce lets a single land card generate two hits per cast.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Golgari Rot Farm is a bulk common in Commander and Pauper — the two formats where it actually sees play. In Commander it earns its slot in any landfall or land-recursion shell, where the enter-tapped penalty is irrelevant compared to the double trigger it generates. In Pauper it occasionally slots into slow midrange or combo lists that want redundant dual land access on a budget. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are all legal on paper, but those formats move too fast for a tapped land that bounces itself to compete with fetchlands and shocklands — Golgari Rot Farm has no business in those 60-card piles.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Golgari Rot Farm is deep bulk — you'll find it in any dollar bin or thrown into a trade as filler. That price is stable and likely stays there indefinitely given how many printings exist and how high the supply is.

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