Mycosynth Wellspring
Artifact
When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander 2021
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #2361
Mycosynth Wellspring enters, fetches a basic land to hand, then pays off again when it hits the graveyard via sacrifice or destruction — two land triggers on a two-mana artifact. In artifact-sacrifice shells, especially those helmed by Mishra, Eminent One, it's a free land-fetch stapled to a recursive body, and that's exactly the kind of card those engines want.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mishra, Eminent One
Mishra, Eminent One copies Mycosynth Wellspring as a token each combat, meaning the enter-the-battlefield trigger fires again every turn and the token conveniently disappears at end of turn to trigger the graveyard clause — netting two land fetches per cycle for free.
Daretti, Scrap Savant
Daretti, Scrap Savant's looting ability and Recollect-style ultimate both want cheap artifacts that have value entering and leaving the battlefield, and Mycosynth Wellspring satisfies both clauses cleanly while contributing to the artifact-density threshold the deck needs.
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut incentivizes sacrificing artifacts for value, making Mycosynth Wellspring an ideal candidate — it produces a land on entry and another on sacrifice, turning a single card into two landfall-style triggers whenever Ragost demands a meal.
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Braids, Arisen Nightmare pressures opponents to sacrifice permanents or pay a toll, and Mycosynth Wellspring gives you a willing sacrifice that has already paid for itself with a land fetch before it hits the graveyard for a second trigger.
Osgir, the Reconstructor
Osgir, the Reconstructor can exile Mycosynth Wellspring from the graveyard to create two copies at once, meaning a single Wellspring can generate four land-fetch triggers over its lifetime — entry, death, and two Osgir copies entering simultaneously.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Mycosynth Wellspring earns its slot, specifically in artifact-sacrifice and recursion shells where the enter-the-battlefield and graveyard triggers can be looped for repeated land fetches. In Pauper it's a legal common that sees occasional play in artifact-synergy lists, though the competition for two-mana utility artifacts is stiff and consistency is harder to achieve without the redundancy Commander's 100-card singleton format demands. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — Mycosynth Wellspring is far too slow for those environments, where two mana buys immediate board impact, not a conditional land into hand. It is not legal in Pioneer or Standard, but neither format would want it anyway.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Mycosynth Wellspring is firmly bulk — a card you pick up in a trade binder or toss into a cart as an afterthought. Bulk artifact staples with genuine synergy homes tend to stay in this range indefinitely unless a new commander spikes demand, so don't expect price movement in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.