Orchard Strider
Creature — Treefolk
When this creature enters, create two Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Basic landcycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #11285
Orchard Strider enters with two Food tokens and replaces itself with a land when it dies — that's card advantage, lifegain, and ramp stapled to a single body. The six-mana cost is real, but in Food-matters builds and high-power-creature shells, Orchard Strider earns its slot; Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar decks and Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood both want every Food producer they can find.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood cares about high-power creatures entering the battlefield, and Orchard Strider's 4 power triggers Alena's mana production while Gilanra's cantrip effect makes the whole package card-neutral at worst.
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd turns Forest-typed lands and big creatures into an engine, and Orchard Strider's death trigger fetching a basic Forest feeds directly into that loop while the two Food tokens keep the board fueled.
Treebeard, Gracious Host
Treebeard, Gracious Host gains counters when Food is sacrificed, so Orchard Strider's two on-entry tokens are immediate fuel — and the body itself is large enough to matter once Treebeard starts distributing counters.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Orchard Strider is most at home — the 100-card singleton format rewards enters-the-battlefield value and incidental lifegain, and six mana is a more acceptable cost when you're not racing under the same pressure as 60-card formats. In Pauper, Orchard Strider is legal and worth examining in any green Food shell, where common-card Food synergies are plentiful and the body is above-rate. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but the competition at six mana is too fierce for Orchard Strider to see serious play in those formats. Oathbreaker decks with Food-matters planeswalkers could slot it in as a reliable value piece.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
AsmoranomardicadaistinaculdacarScythe of the WretchedOrchard Strider
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Orchard Strider is firmly bulk — grab a copy out of any common/uncommon box without a second thought. Bulk rare prices like this don't move unless a new synergy card pushes the archetype into the spotlight, so buy it when you need it and don't worry about the price.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
- Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
- Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
- Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
- Treebeard, Gracious Host
- Scythe of the Wretched
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.