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Natural Affinity

Instant

All lands become 2/2 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Eighth Edition
Price
$3.44
EDHREC rank
#11651
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Natural Affinity card art
Natural Affinity turns every land on the board into a 2/2 creature until end of turn — a global, symmetrical effect that punishes opponents who've stretched their mana base wide open. The cost is real: you're animating their lands too, which means it earns its slot only when you have a payoff like Massacre Wurm to mass-drain them dry, or a commander like Jyoti, Moag Ancient who generates land creatures as a core gameplan.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jyoti, Moag Ancient

Jyoti, Moag Ancient

28.8% of decks · synergy 0.28

Jyoti, Moag Ancient cares specifically about land creatures entering and attacking, so Natural Affinity transforms every opponent's land base into fuel for Jyoti's triggers while simultaneously threatening a lethal board-wide pump on offense.

02
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

23.6% of decks · synergy 0.23

Yedora, Grave Gardener turns nontoken creatures that die into face-down Forests, and Natural Affinity flips those forests into 2/2s — creating a recursive loop where your lands die as creatures, re-enter as Forests via Yedora, and animate again the next time you cast Natural Affinity.

03
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

18.0% of decks · synergy 0.17

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir rewards you for casting spells on opponents' turns, and Natural Affinity at instant speed on an end step lets you swing with a suddenly animated land army backed by whatever pump Jolrael provides.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Natural Affinity is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer board state is where animating every land on the table creates genuinely game-warping leverage that two-player formats can't replicate at the same scale. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but essentially invisible; the effect is too narrow and too dependent on having a payoff in play to compete in those formats, where games end before the setup matters. Commander is where the math works: four opponents each running 35-plus lands means Natural Affinity can animate well over 100 creatures in a single cast, turning a board wipe or a drain effect into a one-shot. Oathbreaker is a viable home for the same reason — compressed life totals and land-matter planeswalkers make the instant-speed land animation hit harder.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

180 decks
Aggravated AssaultNatural Affinity

Aggravated AssaultNatural Affinity

Infinite combat phases; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$3.44 cheap tier

At $3.44, Natural Affinity sits in the cheap tier — affordable enough that it's not a budget concern in any land-matters build that wants it. The price is stable; it's a narrow card with a dedicated audience rather than a broad staple, so it won't spike without a high-profile Commander printing that makes land animation a centerpiece strategy.

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