Lilypad Village
Land
: Add 
.: Add 
. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell., : Surveil 2. Activate only if a Bird, Frog, Otter, or Rat entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #3712
Lilypad Village enters untapped and taps for green mana right away — the enchantment land upside is free if your deck wants it. The cost is real: it only taps for colored mana when you control another enchantment, which makes it punishing in opening hands without one, and Clement, the Worrywort builds the enchantment density to make that condition trivially easy to meet.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Clement, the Worrywort
Clement, the Worrywort runs Lilypad Village in over 60% of its builds because the deck is built around enchantments by design — the colored-mana condition is almost never offline, and every land that doubles as an enchantment feeds Clement's own triggers.
Grolnok, the Omnivore
Grolnok, the Omnivore's Frog tribal and self-mill strategy leans heavily on permanents that pull double duty, and Lilypad Village qualifies as both a land and an enchantment for any effect that cares about the type.
Kastral, the Windcrested
Kastral, the Windcrested cares about having enchantments in play, and Lilypad Village slots into that shell as free enchantment density that doesn't cost a spell slot — it's a land that does two jobs.
Alania, Divergent Storm
Alania, Divergent Storm needs reliable green mana to function and appreciates any permanent that generates enchantment synergy as a bonus; Lilypad Village delivers both without asking for a dedicated deck slot.
Vren, the Relentless
Vren, the Relentless runs enough enchantments to flip the colored-mana condition on consistently, and Lilypad Village provides another redundant piece for decks trying to hit enchantment-count thresholds.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Lilypad Village earns its keep — enchantress strategies and commanders that care about permanent types turn it from a conditional land into a genuine two-for-one in your mana base. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern, it competes against a field of fetch lands and shock lands that never have conditions attached, so it only sees play in dedicated enchantment builds where the type line matters. Pioneer and Standard give it a more hospitable environment since the competition is weaker, and enchantment-matters archetypes there can use it as free density. Outside of those niches, Lilypad Village is a Commander card — the 100-card singleton format rewards the hybrid permanent type in ways 60-card formats rarely do.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Lilypad Village is bulk — pick it up without a second thought if your deck wants it. Bulk enchantment lands don't tend to spike unless a breakout commander creates demand, so the price is stable and the opportunity cost of slotting one in is essentially zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Clement, the Worrywort
- Grolnok, the Omnivore
- Kastral, the Windcrested
- Alania, Divergent Storm
- Vren, the Relentless
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.