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Groundchuck & Dirtbag

Legendary Creature — Ox Mole Mutant

Trample
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add {G}.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price
$0.46
EDHREC rank
#11863
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Groundchuck & Dirtbag card art
Groundchuck & Dirtbag turns your creatures into land-capable bodies, which synergizes immediately with anything that counts or cares about lands entering — Ashaya, Soul of the Wild being the obvious accelerant. The four-mana cost is a real ask, but Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers decks run it at a 35% clip because the payoff in the right shell is immediate.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers

Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers

34.6% of decks · synergy 0.32

Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers is the premier home for Groundchuck & Dirtbag — the ability to give creatures land typing feeds directly into the combat and value engines that shell wants to assemble, and the 35% inclusion rate reflects how often it actually closes out what the deck is trying to do.

02
Omnath, Locus of Mana

Omnath, Locus of Mana

9.4% of decks · synergy 0.07

Omnath, Locus of Mana runs Groundchuck & Dirtbag to squeeze extra value out of a creature-heavy green board, since turning your creatures into lands can trigger land-based payoffs and keep Omnath's mana pool growing without requiring dedicated land-ramp slots.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Groundchuck & Dirtbag is legal across every major constructed format but belongs almost exclusively to Commander, where four mana for a persistent static effect on all your creatures is sustainable and the land-typing payoffs are numerous enough to justify the slot. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, four mana for a creature that doesn't immediately affect the board is too slow and too narrow — there's no viable shell that wants this effect at that cost. Commander is the correct home, specifically in green decks built around Landfall, Ashaya-style creature-as-land synergies, or any commander that rewards high land counts.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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PalinchronGroundchuck & Dirtbag

PalinchronGroundchuck & Dirtbag

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite green mana; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.46 bulk tier

At $0.46, Groundchuck & Dirtbag sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice about the cost. Bulk rares with niche Commander applications tend to stay flat unless a breakout deck pushes demand, so don't expect movement, but at this price the only question is whether it fits your build.

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