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Overgrown Estate

Enchantment

Sacrifice a land: You gain 3 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{W}{B}{G}
Color identity
BGW
Rarity
rare
Set
Apocalypse
Price
$0.49
EDHREC rank
#19694
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Overgrown Estate card art
Overgrown Estate turns any land into a one-mana life payment of 3, which is exactly the kind of repeatable, uncounterable fodder that sacrifice-matters and lifegain commanders want. The catch is obvious: you're eating your own mana base, so it only pulls weight in decks built to exploit it rather than ones that just want incidental life.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Overgrown Estate is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but realistically it only shows up in Commander, where 100-card singleton and slower games give it room to function. In Legacy and Vintage the card is too slow and too parasitic — you're sacrificing lands in formats where tempo is everything, and no competitive shell wants that trade. In Oathbreaker it can find a home in the same sacrifice-and-lifegain shells that run it in Commander, though the smaller deck size makes flooding on setup pieces more punishing. Commander is where Overgrown Estate actually belongs: long games, dedicated synergy builds, and commanders that reward turning lands into resources.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

105 decks
Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoOvergrown EstateLotus Cobra

Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoOvergrown EstateLotus Cobra

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite colored mana; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped; Infinite untap of lands you control

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91 decks
Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoTireless ProvisionerOvergrown Estate

Lumra, Bellow of the WoodsSpringheart NantukoTireless ProvisionerOvergrown Estate

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite colored mana; Put all lands from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.49 bulk tier

At $0.49, Overgrown Estate is firmly bulk — cheap enough to throw into any build that can use it without a second thought. Niche enchantments with narrow applications rarely climb much above this floor, so don't expect movement unless a high-profile commander pushes demand.

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