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Moldervine Reclamation

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$10.08
EDHREC rank
#973
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Moldervine Reclamation card art
Moldervine Reclamation turns every creature death into a life payment and a card — an engine that runs itself as long as your board keeps dying. Five mana is real, but in the Golgari shells that want it (sacrifice loops, token floods, Warren Soultrader lines), Hazel of the Rootbloom decks treat it as a staple for good reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

64.4% of decks · synergy 0.41

Hazel of the Rootbloom generates a constant stream of dying tokens, so Moldervine Reclamation converts each sacrifice directly into a card and life without any extra infrastructure — the two cards form a self-sustaining draw loop.

02
Beledros Witherbloom

Beledros Witherbloom

64.3% of decks · synergy 0.41

Beledros Witherbloom rewards life gain and runs a steady attrition gameplan, and Moldervine Reclamation feeds both angles simultaneously every time a creature hits the graveyard.

03
Slimefoot, the Stowaway

Slimefoot, the Stowaway

61.4% of decks · synergy 0.38

Slimefoot, the Stowaway already wants Saprolings to die for damage; Moldervine Reclamation staples card draw onto each trigger, turning a damage engine into a full value engine at the same time.

04
Dina, Essence Brewer

Dina, Essence Brewer

59.5% of decks · synergy 0.36

Dina, Essence Brewer converts life gain into damage, so Moldervine Reclamation's life payment on each death becomes a direct damage source — every creature that dies now chips opponents' life totals through Dina.

05
Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Savra, Queen of the Golgari

59.8% of decks · synergy 0.36

Savra, Queen of the Golgari taxes opponents with sacrifice effects whenever black or green creatures die, and Moldervine Reclamation ensures those same deaths refill your hand so you never run out of fuel to keep triggering her.

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

Moldervine Reclamation is a Commander card — full stop. At five mana with a symmetry-irrelevant triggered ability, it's too slow for Modern or Legacy, and Pioneer sacrifice strategies have faster, narrower payoffs at lower cost. In Commander, though, five mana is acceptable for a permanent that generates card advantage every turn on a board where creatures die constantly, and Golgari-adjacent sacrifice decks are among the format's most popular archetypes. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it occasionally shows up, specifically in planeswalker shells that double as creature-sacrifice engines.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,389 decks
Warren SoultraderGravecrawlerMoldervine Reclamation

Warren SoultraderGravecrawlerMoldervine Reclamation

Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite colored mana; Near-infinite Treasure tokens; Near-infinite lifegain triggers

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Moldervine Reclamation's price is the obstacle, Grim Haruspex does the core job for under a dollar — it draws a card on each nontoken creature death, no life payment required, though it misses tokens entirely. Fecundity is another sub-dollar option that hits tokens but hands the same draw to opponents, so it's strictly worse in pods where anyone else is sacrificing creatures.

Price Context

Current price

$10.08 mid tier

At $10.08, Moldervine Reclamation sits at the high end of the mid tier for a five-mana enchantment with no competitive demand outside Commander. The price is driven entirely by casual volume — it's a staple in several popular archetypes — so it holds steady but won't climb without a reprint pressure drop.

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