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Murasa Rootgrazer

Creature — Beast

Vigilance
{T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{T}: Return target basic land you control to its owner's hand.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Zendikar Rising
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#11306
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Murasa Rootgrazer card art
Murasa Rootgrazer puts a land-bounce-and-replay engine directly on the board — every landfall trigger you generate becomes fuel to reset a fetch or bounce an ETB land for another proc. The cost is real: two mana per activation and a creature that dies to any stiff breeze, which is why it's a staple in dedicated landfall builds like Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor and an infinite-loop piece alongside Meloku the Clouded Mirror.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

52.2% of decks · synergy 0.52

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor runs on landfall triggers, and Murasa Rootgrazer turns any single land drop into a repeatable engine — bouncing and replaying the same land each turn chains Obuun's counters and land-animation triggers without requiring additional resources.

02
Omnath, Locus of Creation

Omnath, Locus of Creation

16.5% of decks · synergy 0.12

Omnath, Locus of Creation rewards every landfall with life, damage, or mana, so Murasa Rootgrazer's ability to replay a land each turn translates directly into repeated Omnath triggers — it's not the flashiest piece in the deck, but it reliably converts spare mana into incremental value.

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

Murasa Rootgrazer is a Commander card through and through — the value it generates compounds over a long game in ways that two-player formats rarely allow. In Modern and Pioneer, a two-mana 2/3 with an activated ability requiring another two mana is far too slow to matter, and neither format runs the landfall payoffs that justify the setup. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power density to make land-bounce effects relevant, but Murasa Rootgrazer is nowhere near the ceiling of what those formats can do with lands. Commander is where the card earns its slot, specifically in landfall commanders where replaying a land each turn is a repeatable engine rather than a one-off trick.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Murasa Rootgrazer is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and nothing else. Bulk rares with narrow Commander applications rarely climb unless they find a breakout combo, and this one already has a home in Obuun and Omnath builds without seeing a price spike, so expect it to stay at this floor.

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