Rift Sower
Creature — Elf Druid
: Add one mana of any color.
Suspend 2—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #12173
Rift Sower puts a land from your hand onto the battlefield tapped — repeatable ramp stapled to a suspend payoff — and the cost is that it requires an unchained suspend trigger to fire. In Alaundo the Seer builds, that condition is trivially met every turn cycle, making Rift Sower a reliable land-drop engine rather than a conditional one.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alaundo the Seer
Alaundo the Seer suspends cards for free every turn, which means Rift Sower's triggered ability fires consistently without any extra setup — you're just playing lands into play on curve while the rest of the engine runs.
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 |
Rift Sower is a Commander card through and through — the suspend-matters trigger only becomes dependable when a commander like Alaundo the Seer is generating suspend counters on autopilot. In Pauper, the card is legal but suspend synergies are fragmented and slower, so Rift Sower rarely earns a slot over more direct ramp. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but no competitive shell rewards this effect at the pace those formats demand. Outside of dedicated suspend Commander builds, Rift Sower sits unused.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Rift Sower is bulk — you're picking it up for essentially nothing. It's a niche role-player in a specific Commander archetype, so don't expect the price to move unless Alaundo the Seer decks see a significant spike in popularity.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Alaundo the Seer
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.