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Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation

Legendary Creature — God // Land

Trample
Whenever Ojer Kaslem deals combat damage to a player, reveal that many cards from the top of your library. You may put a creature card and/or a land card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.
When Ojer Kaslem dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price
$6.40
EDHREC rank
#1892
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Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation card art
Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation turns every creature you put into the graveyard into a free land from your library — at seven mana that's a steep investment, but the triggered ability snowballs fast enough that a single death trigger can bury opponents in card advantage. Sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar make the engine absurd, and Henzie "Toolbox" Torre can deploy it for two mana less via blitz and immediately start banking landfall triggers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre

57.6% of decks · synergy 0.53

Henzie "Toolbox" Torre runs Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation because blitz drops it into play at a discount and lets Henzie convert the immediate death trigger into free lands before opponents can answer it — you're trading the permanent for a land fetch on the same turn you cast it.

02
Xenagos, God of Revels

Xenagos, God of Revels

46.0% of decks · synergy 0.42

Xenagos, God of Revels doubles Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation's power and toughness on attack, turning it into a 14/14 trampler that demands an immediate answer and farms a land on the way out if it does get blocked and killed.

03
Felix Five-Boots

Felix Five-Boots

36.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Felix Five-Boots copies triggers, which means Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation's death trigger becomes two free land fetches — Felix turns a single death event into a two-land swing that accelerates the board faster than almost any other engine in the deck.

04
Nikya of the Old Ways

Nikya of the Old Ways

32.4% of decks · synergy 0.28

Nikya of the Old Ways locks out noncreature spells but floods the mana pool, and Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation fits cleanly as an all-creature way to convert that excess mana and creature deaths into a thickening land base that keeps pace late.

05
Loot, Exuberant Explorer

Loot, Exuberant Explorer

31.2% of decks · synergy 0.25

Loot, Exuberant Explorer wants to drop extra lands every turn, and Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation feeds that plan by fetching lands directly from the library whenever a creature dies — the two cards form a self-reinforcing loop that keeps Loot's landfall triggers firing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation does its best work — a 100-card singleton game guarantees plenty of creature deaths to convert, and the seven-mana cost is sustainable in a format built around hitting the late game. The flip side, Temple of Cultivation, provides a minor fail-safe if Ojer dies before you untap, giving the card a floor that most expensive creatures lack. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's simply too slow and too exposed to removal at sorcery speed, with no realistic path to cheating it into play reliably. Legacy and Vintage have the tools to abuse it faster, but neither format is short on better payoffs for seven mana, so it stays fringe there. Standard is the one non-Commander environment where it sees occasional play, mostly in ramp shells that can realistically hit seven and exploit the repeated land trigger over multiple turns.

Key Combos

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If the price is the obstacle, Tireless Tracker and Avenger of Zendikar both cost under two dollars and generate card or board advantage from lands without demanding a death trigger setup — you lose the recursive land-fetch engine but gain more immediate value at a lower mana investment. Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation is genuinely hard to replace one-for-one because the combination of a large body, a land-fetch trigger on any creature death, and a land-based flip back is unique, so budget replacements cover parts of the job rather than the whole thing.

Price Context

Current price

$6.40 mid tier

At $6.40, Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion but not a chase rare. The price is fair given its 57% inclusion rate in Henzie decks and broad appeal across Gruul creature strategies; it's unlikely to crater unless a reprint lands in a widely distributed product.

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