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Ley Druid

Creature — Human Druid

{T}: Untap target land.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
30th Anniversary Edition
Price
$20.99
EDHREC rank
#21671
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Ley Druid card art
Ley Druid untaps any land when it attacks — straightforward enough, but pair it with Freed from the Real and that one land becomes infinite mana. The three-mana body is the cost of admission; the combo ceiling is why it shows up at all.

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 Ley Druid earns its keep — green combo and big-mana shells can reliably assemble the Freed from the Real line, and the untap trigger works on any land including utility lands like Gaea's Cradle. In Pauper it's legal and occasionally appears in creature-based ramp builds, though the three-mana 1/1 body is a tough sell in a format that demands efficiency. Legacy and Vintage have it legal on paper but those formats have no interest in a vanilla 1/1 with an attack trigger when broken mana options exist everywhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Ley Druid's attack-trigger restriction is its defining liability, and cards like Argothian Elder skip that entirely by untapping two lands as a tap ability — no combat step required. If the goal is simply untapping a single land on a budget body, Krosan Restorer does the same job at a lower price point and scales with threshold, though it requires a tap rather than an attack.

Price Context

Current price

$20.99 premium tier

At $20.99, Ley Druid sits in premium territory for a card with a single narrow use case. That price is driven almost entirely by the Freed from the Real combo demand rather than raw playability, so it holds value as long as that combo remains popular in Commander.

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