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Saproling Burst

Enchantment

Fading 7 (This enchantment enters with seven fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Create a green Saproling creature token. It has "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst."
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Nemesis
Price
$13.48
EDHREC rank
#18287
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Saproling Burst card art
Saproling Burst lands and immediately threatens lethal — each fading counter translates to a Saproling of that size, and when the last counter leaves, the enchantment blows up the tokens it made. Pair it with Life and Limb to make those Saprolings into Forests, or drop it in a Slimefoot, the Stowaway deck where every token death is a drain trigger.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Slimefoot, the Stowaway

Slimefoot, the Stowaway

15.5% of decks · synergy 0.15

Saproling Burst fills the board with Saprolings that all die at once when the Burst expires, converting every token into a simultaneous drain-and-gain ping from Slimefoot, the Stowaway — that's a single enchantment that can close out the table on its own.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Saproling Burst is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana for a fading enchantment is too slow against turn-one and turn-two threats, and the card generates no immediate board presence beyond large vanilla tokens. Commander is where the math works: the token sizes scale into respectable threats over multiple turns, the fading structure creates a built-in sac trigger that synergizes with aristocrats strategies, and the singleton format limits the removal density that would answer it cheapest.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

102 decks
Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainSaproling BurstIntruder Alarm

Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainSaproling BurstIntruder Alarm

Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite proliferate; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Tendershoot Dryad produces a Saproling every upkeep indefinitely for five mana and doesn't self-destruct, which beats Saproling Burst in raw staying power at a lower price. Verdant Force does the same job at a higher mana cost but with a larger body — neither replicates the variable token sizes or the mass-death trigger, so if your deck specifically needs the "everything dies at once" explosion, there's no clean substitute under a few dollars.

Price Context

Current price

$13.48 mid tier

At $13.48, Saproling Burst sits in the mid tier — meaningful enough that you want a reason to run it, not so expensive that it's out of reach for a focused build. The price is driven almost entirely by Commander demand in Slimefoot and aristocrats lists, so it's unlikely to drop as long as token-sacrifice strategies remain popular.

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