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Ilysian Caryatid

Creature — Plant

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart 2022
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#1751
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Ilysian Caryatid card art
Ilysian Caryatid taps for two mana whenever you control a creature with power 4 or greater — a trivial condition to meet in most green decks and a meaningful acceleration boost when you do. Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy doubles that output, and Kirri, Talented Sprout puts it to work the turn it lands, making this one of the cleaner mana dorks available at two mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kirri, Talented Sprout

Kirri, Talented Sprout

63.3% of decks · synergy 0.62

Kirri, Talented Sprout rewards you for playing creatures with high power, so Ilysian Caryatid slots in as both a synergy piece and an accelerant that helps cast the oversized threats Kirri wants to cascade into.

02
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate

Zilortha, Strength Incarnate

54.7% of decks · synergy 0.49

Zilortha, Strength Incarnate cares about power rather than toughness for combat damage, and its own 8 power immediately flips Ilysian Caryatid from a vanilla 0/3 into a two-mana producer the moment it hits the board.

03
Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss

Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss

52.2% of decks · synergy 0.47

Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss pumps creatures whose abilities tap for mana, turning Ilysian Caryatid into a legitimate threat on top of its ramp role — and the resulting power boost reinforces the two-mana condition right back.

04
Volo, Guide to Monsters

Volo, Guide to Monsters

49.0% of decks · synergy 0.45

Volo, Guide to Monsters copies nonlegendary creatures with unique types, and Ilysian Caryatid's Plant Druid typing makes it a clean copy target that doubles the mana acceleration without the deck having to strain its creature-type diversity.

05
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

47.2% of decks · synergy 0.43

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma reduces the cost of big creatures and grants them trample when attacking, meaning the high-power threats it cheats out also satisfy Ilysian Caryatid's condition — the two cards effectively set each other up.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Ilysian Caryatid does its best work, since the format's high creature counts and oversized threats make the power-4 condition nearly automatic by turn three. In Pauper it competes honestly as a defensive body that doubles as ramp in creature-heavy builds, though the two-mana cost puts it in a crowded slot. Modern and Pioneer have faster, more reliable mana acceleration, so Ilysian Caryatid rarely sees serious play there outside of niche creature-combo shells. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the format speed makes a conditional two-drop mana dork irrelevant.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Ilysian Caryatid is firmly bulk and should stay that way — its playability is real but narrow enough that demand will never push it far above this floor. Grab copies freely; there's no financial case for hesitation at this price.

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