Rampant Growth
Sorcery
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27
Rampant Growth is one of Commander's foundational two-mana ramp spells — it puts a basic land onto the battlefield tapped, accelerates you into your four- and five-drop on curve, and fits in any deck that touches green. The one real trade-off is that the land enters tapped, so it does nothing the turn you cast it; in fast metas where The Swarmlord or similar high-powered commanders are commonplace, two-mana ramp that doesn't also cantrip can fall behind Three Visits or Nature's Lore.
Where It Shines
Where the extra mana on turn one matters most
Big-mana shells like Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
Rampant Growth slots naturally into Pantlaza, Sun-Favored builds that need to hit four or five mana on turn three to start dinosaur-discovers — the tapped land penalty is irrelevant when your payoffs all cost five-plus anyway.
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 Rampant Growth earns its ubiquity — 100-card singleton decks need redundancy, games go long enough that the tapped-land drawback rarely matters, and green is incentivized to ramp beyond two mana early. In Pauper it's a legitimate option in landfall or big-green strategies, though the format's faster clock makes the tapped clause sting more. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have legal access to Rampant Growth, but those formats punish tapped lands harshly and have no real use for it — you'd never run it there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic closely enough that Rampant Growth pulls its weight for the same reasons.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Rampant Growth has been reprinted so many times that copies are available across a wide price range — bulk uncommon editions sit well under a dollar, and even the most premium printings stay affordable. It's worth picking up without hesitation at nearly any price point you encounter it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.