Is Perennial Behemoth good in Commander?

Perennial Behemoth

Artifact Creature — Beast

You may play lands from your graveyard.
Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

CMC: 5
Mana cost
Color identity: G
Rarity: rare
Set: The Brothers' War Promos
Price: $0.55
EDHREC rank: #3735

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Perennial Behemoth lets you sacrifice lands — including notoriously sticky ones like Glacial Chasm — to put basic lands directly onto the battlefield, turning your own graveyard into a land engine. Yuma, Proud Protector decks that want to cycle lands repeatedly are the natural home, and in those shells this card does real work for a negligible investment.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Yuma, Proud Protector

50.6% of decks · synergy 0.49

Yuma, Proud Protector triggers off every land that hits the graveyard, so Perennial Behemoth's sacrifice outlet turns each basic fetched back into another Yuma trigger — the two form a tight loop that keeps the battlefield flooding with tokens.

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

25.6% of decks · synergy 0.24

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch wants permanents in the graveyard to fuel her sacrifice-and-draw engine, and Perennial Behemoth feeds that count while replacing the sacrificed lands with fresh basics, keeping mana development online.

Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

20.0% of decks · synergy 0.18

Thalia and The Gitrog Monster draws a card whenever a land hits the graveyard, so Perennial Behemoth's repeated land sacrifices translate directly into cards — it's an incremental draw engine stapled to a body.

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

19.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Azusa, Lost but Seeking gives you three land drops a turn, and Perennial Behemoth fuels that by pulling basics out of the deck and onto the battlefield, accelerating the depletion of lands from the library that Azusa decks want anyway.

Titania, Protector of Argoth

19.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Titania, Protector of Argoth creates a 5/3 Elemental token for each land that hits the graveyard from play, so every land Perennial Behemoth sacrifices is both a new basic entering the battlefield and a free token — two triggers for the price of one activation.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Perennial Behemoth is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander and essentially only Commander. In singleton 100-card decks built around land recursion and graveyard synergies, the Behemoth's ability to convert sacrificed lands into fresh basics is genuinely powerful. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, a five-mana 0/4 with no immediate board impact is too slow and too fragile to see serious play, and the land-cycling effect isn't relevant enough to justify the cost when dedicated ramp spells exist. Oathbreaker shares enough structural DNA with Commander that the same synergy-driven decks can exploit it there too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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