Season of Gathering
Sorcery
Choose up to five 
worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. — Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains vigilance and trample until end of turn. — Choose artifact or enchantment. Destroy all permanents of the chosen type. — Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Bloomburrow Promos
- Price
- $5.28
- EDHREC rank
- #1781
Season of Gathering dumps every creature from your hand onto the battlefield at once — the kind of board presence that normally costs twice the mana. At five mana in green, it slots cleanly into any token-flood or go-wide shell, and Riku of Many Paths copying it with a full grip is a game-ending play that Body of Research can't touch for raw board width.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Riku of Many Paths
Riku of Many Paths copies instants and sorceries for two mana, so Season of Gathering at five mana becomes two massive creature deployments from a single hand — the copied version lands a second wave the moment the first hits.
Ygra, Eater of All
Ygra, Eater of All converts every creature entering the battlefield into food, so Season of Gathering flooding the board in a single cast generates a pile of sacrifice fodder and life gain simultaneously.
Muerra, Trash Tactician
Muerra, Trash Tactician cares about sacrificing artifacts and getting value from your graveyard, and Season of Gathering empties the hand fast enough to turbocharge the discard-and-recur loops Muerra wants running.
Finneas, Ace Archer
Finneas, Ace Archer rewards a packed battlefield with tap-based removal, and Season of Gathering delivers that packed battlefield in one shot rather than across several turns.
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince distributes Banana tokens to opponents and wins by leveraging creature-dense boards; Season of Gathering drops enough bodies at once to make Kibo's combat math immediately threatening.
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 |
Season of Gathering is a Commander card front to back — the effect scales directly with hand size, and Commander games naturally accumulate the six- and seven-card grips that make it backbreaking. In 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, hand sizes are too constrained by turn five for it to reliably outperform conventional creature deployment, and it sees essentially no competitive play there. Legacy and Vintage have the card quality to fill a hand, but those formats move too fast for a five-mana sorcery without an immediate combo payoff. Standard is technically legal but the card finds no home in the current meta. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it has genuine teeth, specifically in green creature shells that can load up before casting it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Body of ResearchSeason of Gathering
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Crashing Drawbridge and mass-haste enablers aside, the closest budget replacement for Season of Gathering is Selvala's Stampede, which also converts hand contents into battlefield presence at sorcery speed for similar mana — you lose the certainty since Selvala's Stampede involves a vote, but it costs under a dollar. Chord of Calling and Green Sun's Zenith fetch single creatures rather than the whole hand, so they can't replicate the burst, but for decks that just want one key piece rather than a flood, either is a sharper and cheaper tool.
Price Context
Current price
$5.28 mid tier
At $5.28, Season of Gathering sits in the mid tier — affordable enough to include without a dedicated budget slot, but not a throwaway pickup. It's a recent printing with genuine Commander demand, so the price is unlikely to crater, though wide distribution tends to keep mid-tier sorceries from climbing significantly either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.