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Rosie Cotton of South Lane

Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant

When Rosie Cotton enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever you create a token, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control other than Rosie Cotton.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$1.28
EDHREC rank
#1219
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Rosie Cotton of South Lane card art
Rosie Cotton of South Lane turns every token you create into a +1/+1 counter trigger, then staples a free Food onto each of those triggers — making her a two-card engine in any deck that goes wide. The combo ceiling is real: pair her with Basking Broodscale or Samwise Gamgee and the counter triggers loop into infinite tokens, infinite counters, or both.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee

88.9% of decks · synergy 0.81

Samwise Gamgee is the natural home because he generates Food tokens whenever a historic permanent enters, and Rosie Cotton of South Lane converts each of those Foods into +1/+1 counters on any creature — turning a passive life-gain loop into a board-wide stat engine that closes games fast.

02
Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon

77.9% of decks · synergy 0.75

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon floods the board with gnome tokens on every attacking creature trigger, and Rosie Cotton of South Lane scales each of those token drops into +1/+1 counter accumulation, letting the deck grow wide and tall in the same combat step.

03
Frodo, Adventurous HobbitSam, Loyal Attendant

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant

80.6% of decks · synergy 0.67

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant already wants to produce and sacrifice Food, so Rosie Cotton of South Lane layers a permanent-power upgrade onto every Food trigger, turning a janky life-gain subtheme into a legitimate threat engine.

04
Merry, Warden of IsengardPippin, Warden of Isengard

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard

76.8% of decks · synergy 0.63

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard reward you for going wide with Hobbits and allies, and Rosie Cotton of South Lane ensures every new token that lands immediately pumps another creature, accelerating the commander pair's board-flood gameplan.

05
Rocco, Street Chef

Rocco, Street Chef

67.9% of decks · synergy 0.61

Rocco, Street Chef puts a counter on a creature every turn and generates Food as a by-product, which means Rosie Cotton of South Lane converts the Food output into an additional counter trigger each rotation — doubling the rate at which the deck's creatures outgrow the table.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Rosie Cotton of South Lane belongs — the format's tolerance for three-mana value creatures and its abundance of token synergies give her plenty of room to generate real advantage over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage she's legal but irrelevant; a 1/1 that makes Food tokens on a three-mana sorcery-speed body can't compete with the card quality and speed of those formats. Modern is theoretically legal but the same problem applies: without a critical mass of cheap token producers and no combo redundancy, she's too slow to matter outside a dedicated brew. Oathbreaker is an interesting middle ground — token-generating planeswalkers exist that could trigger her repeatedly, though the smaller deck size makes assembling the full engine less consistent.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Basking BroodscaleRosie Cotton of South Lane

Basking BroodscaleRosie Cotton of South Lane

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature

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Price Context

Current price

$1.28 cheap tier

At $1.28, Rosie Cotton of South Lane sits comfortably in budget territory for a card that appears in nearly every Samwise Gamgee build and dozens of token-counter decks. That price reflects a card with genuine combo upside but narrow enough application that demand stays moderate — don't expect it to spike unless a new infinite token commander pushes her into the mainstream.

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