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Overgrown Arch

Creature — Plant Wall

Defender
{T}: You gain 1 life.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#19493
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Overgrown Arch card art
Overgrown Arch puts repeatable card draw directly on a land — pay life, draw cards, no mana required beyond the tap. The life cost is real, but Agatha's Soul Cauldron and similar activated-ability engines make it a combo piece, not just a utility land.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Overgrown Arch earns its slot — 40 life turns the pay-2-draw-1 clause from a liability into a resource, and decks that want activated abilities on lands (Maze's End strategies, landfall, or high-synergy combo shells) get genuine value here. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, 20-life formats punish the life drain fast enough that dedicated draw spells almost always outperform it, and a tapped land that doesn't advance your mana development is rarely worth the slot. Vintage has better options at every point on the curve. Overgrown Arch is a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Overgrown Arch is deep bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice. Bulk rares with combo applications can tick up if a deck or archetype breaks out, but this one is cheap enough that the calculus is simple: if you want it, you own it for pocket change.

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