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Mina and Denn, Wildborn

Legendary Creature — Elf Ally

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
{R}{G}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
rare
Set
Oath of the Gatewatch
Price
$2.46
EDHREC rank
#1990
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Mina and Denn, Wildborn card art
Mina and Denn, Wildborn lets you play an extra land every turn and converts those extra land drops into trample, giving landfall decks two distinct engines on a single four-mana body. The bounce-for-trample ability also unlocks utility land recursion — replaying Glacial Chasm or any enters-the-battlefield land on demand — which is the card's ceiling and the reason Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor builds run it at over 76%.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

76.4% of decks · synergy 0.73

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor turns every extra land drop into a larger, trampling attacker, and Mina and Denn, Wildborn supplies both the additional land drop and the trample grant, making the two abilities directly redundant in the best way.

02
Omnath, Locus of Rage

Omnath, Locus of Rage

65.2% of decks · synergy 0.59

Omnath, Locus of Rage wants as many landfall triggers per turn as possible, and Mina and Denn, Wildborn's extra land drop reliably pushes that count from one to two every turn, spawning additional elementals and lightning bolts.

03
Phylath, World Sculptor

Phylath, World Sculptor

55.3% of decks · synergy 0.49

Phylath, World Sculptor generates plant tokens on basic land ETBs, so Mina and Denn, Wildborn doubling the land drops per turn doubles the token output without requiring any additional setup.

04
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

48.7% of decks · synergy 0.46

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand scales its Desert-token production off land count, and Mina and Denn, Wildborn accelerates that count while also letting Hazezon decks bounce and replay utility Deserts for repeated triggers.

05
Borborygmos Enraged

Borborygmos Enraged

45.3% of decks · synergy 0.39

Borborygmos Enraged pitches lands from hand to deal damage, so running out of lands to throw is a real constraint — Mina and Denn, Wildborn refills the hand's land supply by bouncing lands back and replaying them for extra landfall triggers along the way.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Mina and Denn, Wildborn actually does its work — the extra land drop ability compounds over a long game, and the bounce-for-trample ability has a deep roster of enters-the-battlefield lands worth recycling in a 99-card format. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a four-mana legendary that doesn't immediately win or protect itself is too slow to see real play. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but have no reason to run it over faster land-drop engines. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 100-card format where it could slot into a landfall signature-spell shell, but the card pool there keeps it niche.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.46 cheap tier

At $2.46, Mina and Denn, Wildborn sits in the cheap tier — high enough that it's not a bulk throw-in, low enough that there's no reason to hunt for a cheaper version. The price is stable; it sees consistent demand across Omnath and Obuun builds but will never spike without a reprint ban scare, so buy it whenever you need it.

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