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Khalni Garden

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
{T}: Add {G}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis
Price
$1.95
EDHREC rank
#3066
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Khalni Garden card art
Khalni Garden enters tapped and produces a 0/1 Plant token on arrival — one land slot buys you a body, which is the whole point. In token-hungry decks like Thromok the Insatiable or sacrifice engines like Beifong's Bounty Hunters, that free creature is real currency, not a consolation prize.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Thromok the Insatiable

Thromok the Insatiable

51.7% of decks · synergy 0.50

Thromok the Insatiable devours creatures to grow, so every free token is another counter on a lethal attacker — Khalni Garden delivers one at no spell cost, just by existing as a land.

02
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

45.4% of decks · synergy 0.42

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch wants three permanent types on the battlefield to trigger her sacrifice-and-draw engine, and the Plant token from Khalni Garden makes hitting that threshold trivially easy on the turn the land comes down.

03
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

41.9% of decks · synergy 0.38

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis needs creatures or cards in the graveyard to convoke and delve his way onto the battlefield, and Khalni Garden provides an instant sacrificial body without spending a card slot on the spell that makes it.

04
Kirri, Talented Sprout

Kirri, Talented Sprout

39.9% of decks · synergy 0.38

Kirri, Talented Sprout cares about going wide with Plant tokens specifically, and Khalni Garden is one of the few lands that contributes a Plant directly — it pulls double duty as mana source and tribal piece.

05
Grismold, the Dreadsower

Grismold, the Dreadsower

35.2% of decks · synergy 0.32

Grismold, the Dreadsower grows whenever any player's token dies, so seeding the table with Plants off Khalni Garden sets up both your own sacrifice fodder and the counters Grismold needs to threaten combat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Khalni Garden does its best work — the singleton format's emphasis on value-per-card makes a land that also makes a creature genuinely worth the enters-tapped tax. In Pauper, it sees play in token and sacrifice shells for the same reason: common-legal creature generation stapled to a land is a real rate. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but rarely want it; those formats demand speed that an enters-tapped land actively punishes. Modern has better options for token generation and rarely tolerates the tempo loss. Khalni Garden is a Commander and Pauper card first, a curiosity everywhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.95 cheap tier

At $1.95, Khalni Garden sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it belongs in any deck that wants it without a second thought. Utility lands at this price point tend to stay flat; there's no scarcity driving it higher, but widespread casual demand keeps it from bottoming out either.

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