Natural Order
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a green creature.
Search your library for a green creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Price
- $14.18
- EDHREC rank
- #1622
Natural Order puts any green creature from your library directly onto the battlefield for four mana — the only cost is sacrificing a green creature you already control. Yisan, the Wanderer Bard players run it as a shortcut past the verse counter grind, dropping Craterhoof Behemoth or Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger the moment a mana dork becomes expendable.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | banned |
Natural Order is legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander, but banned in Oathbreaker — where the lower starting life total and smaller deck size make a four-mana unconditional tutor-into-play far too consistent. The one restriction that matters is the green creature sacrifice: in Legacy that cost is real, since you're usually jamming this on turn two off a Noble Hierarch you'd rather keep. Commander largely nullifies that concern — green creature ramp runs deep in the format, creature tokens are everywhere, and the sacrifice is almost always paid with something you were going to replace anyway.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard uses Natural Order to skip the incremental verse counter loop entirely, sacrificing a low-cost creature to land whatever finisher the board demands on the spot.
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds generates enough mana that Natural Order is essentially free, converting any mana dork into the largest creature in the library at instant-plus speed.
Marwyn, the Nurturer
Marwyn, the Nurturer builds a board of elves that double as Natural Order fodder, turning a tapped-out elf into a game-ending threat the moment the mana is available.
Xenagos, God of Revels
Xenagos, God of Revels wants a single enormous creature on the battlefield, and Natural Order is the most efficient way to fetch it — any green creature on board becomes the target of your choice.
Eladamri, Korvecdal
Eladamri, Korvecdal runs a dense creature base across multiple creature types, giving Natural Order a wide target pool and a constant supply of sacrifice fodder from smaller utility creatures.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Finale of Devastation is the closest replacement — it tutors a creature into play for X mana, doubles as a finisher at X=10, and sits around $3. Green Sun's Zenith is another option at a similar price point, though it requires the target to be green and shuffles itself back rather than going to the graveyard, which matters in reanimator shells. Neither replicates Natural Order's flat four-mana cost for any green creature, but both cover the core role in decks that aren't trying to cheat something massive into play ahead of curve.
Price Context
Current price
$14.18 mid tier
At $14.18, Natural Order sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that any green combo or stompy deck can justify it. It has held this range steadily given consistent Commander demand, and there's no cheaper reprint currently in circulation that would push the price lower.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
- Marwyn, the Nurturer
- Xenagos, God of Revels
- Eladamri, Korvecdal
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.