Nature's Cloak
Sorcery
Green creatures you control gain forestwalk until end of turn. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Portal
- Price
- $7.26
- EDHREC rank
- #23630
Nature's Cloak gives all your green creatures forestwalk for the rest of the turn — at five mana at sorcery speed, it's a one-shot alpha-strike enabler rather than a persistent threat. If your table runs green, this ends games; if it doesn't, it's a dead card.
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 Cloak is a Commander card through and through — it's legal in Legacy and Vintage, but those formats have no interest in a sorcery-speed forestwalk effect at five mana. In Commander, where green is the most-played color at almost every table, Nature's Cloak reliably makes your entire green board unblockable on the turn you need to end the game. It's narrowest in pods where green is underrepresented, but in practice that's a rare meta. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where it could see play, though the faster pace of that format makes five mana a steeper ask.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Archetype of Endurance grants a permanent evasion-adjacent effect, but nothing cleanly replicates mass forestwalk at a lower price point — the closest parallel is Nylea's Presence, which grants forestwalk to a single creature for one mana, sacrificing the board-wide impact that makes Nature's Cloak a finisher. If you need a budget swap that pushes through damage, Overwhelming Stampede or Beastmaster Ascension win on a different axis entirely for comparable or lower cost.
Price Context
Current price
$7.26 mid tier
At $7.26, Nature's Cloak sits in the mid tier — meaningful for a single-use sorcery with no guaranteed impact outside green-heavy metas. It holds that price on scarcity rather than demand, so if your table rarely fields green opponents, there are better places to spend seven dollars.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.