Morbid Bloom
Sorcery
Exile target creature card from a graveyard, then create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is the exiled card's toughness.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #20381
Morbid Bloom puts a Saproling into play for each creature card in a target player's graveyard — that's the payoff, and six mana is the price of admission. In graveyard-heavy metas it overperforms wildly; in any pod where graveyards stay empty, it's a blank.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slimefoot, the Stowaway
Slimefoot, the Stowaway turns every token into a drain trigger, so a single Morbid Bloom resolving against a stocked graveyard can close out the game on the spot — drain five, gain five, repeat across the table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Morbid Bloom is a Commander card through and through. Six mana is too slow for Legacy and Vintage, where graveyards fill fast but so do opponents' win conditions, and no competitive shell there wants a sorcery-speed token generator at this cost. In Commander, the math flips: graveyards accumulate over a long game, opponents run 30–40 creatures each, and the token count on a single Morbid Bloom can easily reach double digits by the midgame. It belongs in any black-green shell that cares about Saproling count or death triggers, and it scales harder in four-player pods than any other format could offer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Morbid Bloom is deep bulk — pick it up in any trade binder without thinking twice. Bulk rares with narrow applications tend to stay cheap, so don't expect this to move unless a future Saproling or graveyard commander pushes it into the spotlight.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.