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Kodama of the East Tree

Legendary Creature — Spirit

Reach
Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#939
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Kodama of the East Tree card art
Kodama of the East Tree puts a permanent into play for free every time another permanent enters on your side — the engine runs itself the moment you have two triggers feeding each other. The cost is a six-mana 6/6 with reach and trample that does nothing the turn it arrives, so it lives or dies by how fast your deck can reload; pair it with a bounce land like Simic Growth Chamber and you already have a self-sustaining loop before you touch a single combo piece. Kona, Rescue Beastie decks run it at nearly 60% inclusion because the redundancy is that good.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kona, Rescue Beastie

Kona, Rescue Beastie

59.7% of decks · synergy 0.51

Kona, Rescue Beastie's ability to put creatures into play from outside the game hands Kodama of the East Tree a free trigger every time it fires, and Kodama hands Kona one back — the two create a recursive engine that snowballs out of control within a single turn cycle.

02
Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bello, Bard of the Brambles

54.4% of decks · synergy 0.47

Bello, Bard of the Brambles floods the board with land creatures, and every one that enters gives Kodama of the East Tree a free deployment — run enough land-fetching effects and Bello turns each fetch into a cascading chain of permanents.

03
Mr. Foxglove

Mr. Foxglove

45.8% of decks · synergy 0.43

Mr. Foxglove cheats high-cost permanents into play, and each one hands Kodama of the East Tree a trigger to chain the next one down; the two commanders effectively function as a single two-card engine.

04
Mayael the Anima

Mayael the Anima

43.4% of decks · synergy 0.41

Mayael the Anima drops fatties at end of turn, and each fat creature entering gives Kodama of the East Tree a trigger to deploy another permanent for free — Mayael's repeated activations compound into a cascade of board presence.

05
Círdan the Shipwright

Círdan the Shipwright

41.9% of decks · synergy 0.36

Círdan the Shipwright generates artifact tokens consistently, and each token entering gives Kodama of the East Tree a free permanent — the loop is low-investment and doesn't require expensive combo pieces to start.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Kodama of the East Tree is a Commander card through and through — the free-permanent trigger is designed for the 100-card singleton environment where you can stack landfall, bounce lands, and enters-the-battlefield chains across dozens of pieces. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but completely irrelevant; six mana for a creature that doesn't impact the board immediately doesn't compete in formats where the game ends on turn one or two. Oathbreaker offers a smaller sandbox where Kodama of the East Tree can still function as a signature spell engine, but the four-player multiplayer context of Commander is where the card reaches its ceiling — the more permanents your opponents put into play, the more triggers you accumulate on your own side.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Kodama of the East Tree isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the current market rate. Given its near-60% inclusion in top synergy commanders and multiple infinite combo lines, it has historically carried a meaningful price tag — verify before you buy.

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