Heart of Yavimaya
Land
If this land would enter, sacrifice a Forest instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
: Add 
.: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition II
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23666
Heart of Yavimaya enters tapped, sacrifices itself to put two +1/+1 counters on a creature, and before that happens it taps for green — a land that converts into permanent stats on demand. The sacrifice clause is the entire point: it's a free counter injection with zero card disadvantage, and any deck that cares about +1/+1 counters or creature size wants it.
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 |
In Commander, Heart of Yavimaya earns a slot in any green deck running a counters theme — Atraxa, Praetors' Voice, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, Hamza, Guardian of Arashin — because the two counters arrive at instant speed when you sac it, triggering proliferate and counter-doubling effects along the way. Legacy permits it, but the format's speed makes a tapped land that eventually becomes two counters too slow to matter outside niche Lands or combo-adjacent builds. Vintage and Oathbreaker follow similar logic to Commander: the card is playable wherever green decks have time to set up a board.
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Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.