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Grovetender Druids

Creature — Elf Druid Ally

Rally — Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 green Plant creature token.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Battle for Zendikar
Price
$0.07
EDHREC rank
#25082
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Grovetender Druids card art
Grovetender Druids generates a 1/1 Plant token every time you cast a spell with a basic land type in its type line — an engine that snowballs fast in any deck built around land-fetch or tribal typal synergies. The cost is a four-mana 2/3 with no immediate board impact, so it needs a deck that will reliably trigger it; pair it with Maskwood Nexus and every spell you cast feeds the token machine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Grovetender Druids is a Commander card through and through — the token-per-landcycler math only becomes impressive across a full game, and the 100-card singleton format gives you the density of basic-land-type spells needed to make it worthwhile. In Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, four mana for a 2/3 that needs setup is too slow and too fragile to compete with the existing token and landfall strategies. Those formats also lack the tribal-typal infrastructure that pushes Grovetender Druids into broken territory. Play it in Commander and nowhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.07 bulk tier

At $0.07, Grovetender Druids is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice. Bulk rares with genuine combo applications rarely spike hard, but this one sees enough Commander play that copies stay in circulation and the price stays flat.

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