Greenseeker
Creature — Elf Spellshaper
, 
, Discard a card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #16276
Greenseeker trades a card and a tap to put a basic land into your hand — slow, conditional fixing that doesn't even hit the battlefield. In a format full of one-mana ramp that actually advances your board, Greenseeker is outclassed before it untaps.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Greenseeker sits below the playability floor — you need ramp that accelerates your mana, not a 1/1 that asks you to discard a card to draw a basic next turn. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a one-mana creature with this ceiling when the format moves on turn one. Pauper is the one context where Greenseeker's common status and cheap mana cost make it worth a second look, particularly in slower green decks that need color fixing across a long game. Everywhere else, it's a bulk rare waiting to be outclassed by any one-mana spell that actually hits the table.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Greenseeker is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. There's no pressure to buy or hold; copies will remain near-free as long as the card sees the fringe play it does now.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.