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Kin-Tree Warden

Creature — Human Warrior

{2}: Regenerate this creature.
Morph {G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Khans of Tarkir
Price
$0.02
EDHREC rank
#23368
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Kin-Tree Warden card art
Kin-Tree Warden is a one-mana 1/1 with a regeneration ability that costs one green mana — unremarkable on its own, but it becomes a loop engine the moment Yedora, Grave Gardener is in play. Yedora turns every nontoken creature dying into a Forest entering the battlefield, and Kin-Tree Warden's regeneration shields it from dying in the first place — making it the glue that keeps sacrifice loops intact without burning through your graveyard.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

18.4% of decks · synergy 0.18

Yedora, Grave Gardener turns creature deaths into land drops, and Kin-Tree Warden's regeneration lets it survive sacrifice outlets repeatedly — that combination forms the core of Yedora's most common infinite loops, which is why nearly one in five Yedora decks runs it.

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

Kin-Tree Warden is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker. In Commander, the only format where it consistently earns a slot, it's a combo piece first and a creature second — its regeneration ability is the mechanism that enables repeatable sacrifice loops with Yedora, Grave Gardener. In Pauper it's technically playable at common, but there's no shell that wants a regenerating 1/1 for one mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect. In every other format, Kin-Tree Warden is simply outclassed — Modern and Pioneer have no use for a creature this low-impact outside of a dedicated combo, and no dedicated combo exists there.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.02 bulk tier

At $0.02, Kin-Tree Warden is deep bulk — you'll find it in commons boxes or pick up a playset for the cost of a sleeve. Despite being a genuine combo piece in Yedora, Grave Gardener decks, the narrow demand keeps the price pinned to the floor and there's no realistic pressure to move it off bulk.

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