Greener Pastures
Enchantment
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls more lands than each other player, the player creates a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.61
- EDHREC rank
- #24571
Greener Pastures gives every player a land drop each upkeep — including yours — which means in a four-player pod you're netting three extra land drops per rotation at the cost of gifting the same to opponents. Run it only when you can convert that acceleration faster than anyone else at the table, or when the political goodwill is worth the symmetry.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only home where Greener Pastures makes real sense: the symmetry is least punishing when you're the deck most capable of abusing extra lands, and a four-player table dilutes the downside by spreading it across three opponents who will often fight each other before turning on you. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but functionally unplayable — those formats punish slow, symmetrical enchantments ruthlessly, and nobody is building a land-drop engine at those tables. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer dynamic, so the same logic applies at smaller scale, though the faster average game speed narrows the window to profit from the extra mana.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.61 bulk tier
At $0.61, Greener Pastures sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bulk bin without a second thought. Bulk enchantments with narrow applications rarely climb unless a new commander creates a sudden spike in demand, so don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.