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Hope Tender

Creature — Human Druid

{1}, {T}: Untap target land.
{1}, {T}, Exert this creature: Untap two target lands. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Amonkhet Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#16606
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Hope Tender taps two lands for one mana — that's the whole pitch, and it's enough to anchor dedicated untap engines. Ashaya, Soul of the Wild turns every creature into a land, which means Hope Tender can untap itself and friends for absurd mana output; Yisan, the Wanderer Bard leans on it to double up verse counters in a single turn.

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Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

23.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard needs to activate multiple times per turn to chain creatures up the curve, and Hope Tender provides exactly the additional untap needed — tap a land, untap Yisan, repeat until you've hit every relevant verse count in one go.

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

Hope Tender is a Commander card through and through — the payoff for untapping two lands scales with the absurd mana sinks and multi-activation engines that format enables. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but essentially invisible; two-mana creature-based ramp that requires tapping lands doesn't compete with the raw efficiency those formats demand. Commander is where the tap-two lands clause graduates from cute to broken, especially alongside Ashaya, Soul of the Wild or any commander that rewards repeated activations. Oathbreaker can support it in the same way Commander does, given the right planeswalker and signature spell pairing.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a current number. Hope Tender has a narrow but devoted audience — Commander players building untap or creature-land synergy decks — so demand is real but spiky rather than broad.

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