Nature's Chosen
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
: Untap enchanted creature. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.
Tap enchanted creature: Untap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate only if enchanted creature is white and untapped and only once each turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Alliances
- Price
- $2.97
- EDHREC rank
- #7386
Nature's Chosen untaps any creature or snow permanent for free at instant speed — effectively a zero-mana activation doubler stapled to an enchantment that costs a single white mana. In the right shell, particularly tap-outlet commanders like Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful, it threads directly into infinite-mana loops alongside Cloudstone Curio and similar bounce engines.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful runs Nature's Chosen because Thrasios's tap ability is the engine — untapping him for free with this enchantment means every mana you generate through a loop goes straight into card draw and library manipulation rather than the activation cost.
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch's ability requires tapping her, so Nature's Chosen turns a single activation into a repeatable loop whenever you have a bounce or untap chain assembled — letting her sacrifice trigger multiple times in a single turn.
Emmara, Soul of the Accord
Emmara, Soul of the Accord produces a token every time she's tapped, so Nature's Chosen functions as a free token generator — untap her after any other tap outlet fires and you're getting Soldier tokens without spending an attack or a spell.
Selvala, Explorer Returned
Selvala, Explorer Returned taps for mana and card draw, making Nature's Chosen a near-free way to double her output each turn cycle, and the combination slots neatly into the infinite-mana loops Selvala decks are already assembling.
Tayam, Luminous Enigma
Tayam, Luminous Enigma's ability costs a tap plus counters, and Nature's Chosen lets you fire it twice in a turn when you can supply the counters — accelerating the graveyard recursion engine that the deck is built around.
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 | legal |
Nature's Chosen is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that list tells you almost everything — this card was designed in an era before Modern and has never been reprinted into newer formats. In Legacy and Vintage it sees essentially no play; the formats move too fast for a one-mana enchantment that does nothing the turn it enters and requires a creature already in play to matter. Commander is where Nature's Chosen actually lives, specifically in tap-outlet combo decks that need redundant untap effects to assemble infinite loops — it's a role-player, not a generalist, but in those shells it punches well above its price.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Yenna, Redtooth RegentNature's ChosenFaith Healer
Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite mana lands, artifacts, and creatures you control can produce; Infinite scry
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Yenna, Redtooth RegentNature's ChosenAuratog
Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite mana lands, artifacts, and creatures you control can produce; Infinite scry
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Current price
$2.97 cheap tier
At $2.97, Nature's Chosen sits in the cheap tier — affordable enough to slot in speculatively, but the price reflects real demand from combo players rather than bulk-bin indifference. It holds that value because it hasn't seen a meaningful reprint and remains a near-unique effect in white, so don't expect it to drop without one.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.