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Reaping Willow

Creature — Treefolk Cleric

Lifelink
This creature enters with two -1/-1 counters on it.
{1}{W/B}, Remove two counters from this creature: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#15029
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Reaping Willow card art
Reaping Willow enters as a 0/5 toughness-matters creature that grows permanently whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater enters under your control — free +1/+1 counters stapled to a board presence you'd already want. Under Mikaeus, the Unhallowed it gets undying recursion, and under Doran, Besieged by Time it attacks as a threatening beater from turn one while snowballing every subsequent creature you cast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Doran, Besieged by Time

Doran, Besieged by Time

24.5% of decks · synergy 0.20

Doran, Besieged by Time flips the damage axis to toughness, which means Reaping Willow enters as a 5-power attacker that gets bigger every time another high-toughness creature joins the board — it's a self-reinforcing threat in the exact shell built to abuse it.

02
Doran, the Siege Tower

Doran, the Siege Tower

14.8% of decks · synergy 0.11

Doran, the Siege Tower runs the same toughness-as-power plan, so Reaping Willow pulls double duty: it attacks for 5 while its triggered ability stacks counters each time you drop another wall or defender, compounding pressure across the board.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Reaping Willow is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive non-rotating formats have no interest in a slow value creature that needs a toughness-matters shell to function. Commander is where it actually lives — the 100-card singleton format gives it enough high-toughness creatures to trigger repeatedly, and multiplayer games last long enough for the counter accumulation to matter. Outside of dedicated Doran-style or toughness-matters builds, it doesn't make the cut in most Commander lists either.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Reaping Willow is pure bulk — you're picking it up as a throw-in or grabbing a playset for under a dollar without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow synergy rarely climb, so don't expect the price to move unless a future toughness-matters commander spikes demand.

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