Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
Instant // Land
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.92
- EDHREC rank
- #754
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove puts a -1/-1 counter on a creature and gains you life on the front half, then flips into a land that taps for green mana and adds a counter to any target — two distinct effects on one card for the price of a single deck slot. Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh is the clearest home: the counter placement fuels her triggered ability, and the Grove side extends your mana while keeping the counter engine online.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh runs Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove because both halves feed her engine — the front-face counter weakens an opposing creature while triggering her ability, and Old-Growth Grove keeps the counters flowing once it enters as a land.
Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid
Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid hunts for ways to place -1/-1 counters on opponents' creatures, and Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove delivers that cheaply while the Grove half extends the mana base so Indoraptor can keep attacking.
Volrath, the Shapestealer
Volrath, the Shapestealer needs -1/-1 counters on opposing creatures to copy them, and Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove is one of the most efficient ways to put a counter on a target while leaving behind a land.
Sarulf, Realm Eater
Sarulf, Realm Eater accumulates -1/-1 counters to grow and then sweeps permanents, so Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove does double duty — adding a counter to Sarulf's total while the life gain keeps you stable enough to let the board state develop.
Jenova, Ancient Calamity
Jenova, Ancient Calamity cares about counters hitting the board repeatedly, and Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove slots in as a low-cost way to trigger her while converting to a land that can place another counter on the back half.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the format that gets the most out of Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove — the double-faced design rewards decks that want counters and lands in the same card, and the 100-card singleton format makes that kind of modal flexibility genuinely valuable. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is too low-impact for a competitive slot; neither format needs incremental life gain or slow counter placement at this mana cost. Modern is legal but similarly uninterested — the counter synergies available there don't need a sorcery-speed enabler this inefficient. Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove is a Commander card through and through, and that's the only context worth building around it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.92 bulk tier
At $0.92, Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove sits at the high end of bulk — cheap enough to pick up without a second thought, but not so cheap it feels like a throwaway. The price reflects real demand from Cleopatra and counter-synergy Commander lists, so it's stable at this tier rather than trending toward true bulk floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.