Restless Cottage
Land
This land enters tapped.
: Add 
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: This land becomes a 4/4 black and green Horror creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, create a Food token and exile up to one target card from a graveyard.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $1.01
- EDHREC rank
- #3045
Restless Cottage enters untapped, produces black or green mana, and attacks as a 4/4 that makes a Food token with lifelink — all for no mana investment beyond tapping it. That combination of free tempo and built-in value makes it an automatic inclusion in any Golgari deck that wants staying power on the board, and Gyome, Master Chef decks in particular treat it as a near-staple.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gyome, Master Chef
Gyome, Master Chef runs on Food tokens, and Restless Cottage generates one every combat for free — it's the rare land that actively advances the commander's engine without spending a spell slot.
Camellia, the Seedmiser
Restless Cottage gives Camellia, the Seedmiser a mana base that doubles as a threat, and the Food it generates can fuel sacrifice synergies without touching creature count.
Ygra, Eater of All
Ygra, Eater of All converts Food tokens into life and threat density, so Restless Cottage's repeatable Food production feeds the engine every turn it attacks.
Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard
Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard cares about Food as a resource, and Restless Cottage supplies it on a land that never costs a card draw to find — it's just there in the mana base doing work.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Restless Cottage earns its slot on rate alone — an untapped dual that becomes a 4/4 lifelink attacker is a strong ask for any Golgari list, and the Food token it generates on attack scales well in multiplayer where life totals matter. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the Restless cycle sees occasional play in midrange shells that can reliably animate them without overloading on creature lands, though Restless Cottage sits near the bottom of that cycle's power ranking due to the relative passivity of Food. Legacy and Vintage have better options at every point on the curve, so Restless Cottage doesn't see meaningful play there despite being legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.01 cheap tier
At $1.01, Restless Cottage is squarely in impulse-buy territory — cheap enough that there's no reason to omit it from any Golgari Commander build that can run it. Creature lands in active archetypes tend to hold floor value rather than crater, so don't expect it to get much cheaper.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Gyome, Master Chef
- Camellia, the Seedmiser
- Ygra, Eater of All
- Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.