Season of the Bold
Sorcery
Choose up to five 
worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. — Create a tapped Treasure token. — Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play them. — Until the end of your next turn, whenever you cast a spell, Season of the Bold deals 2 damage to up to one target creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $1.26
- EDHREC rank
- #6023
Season of the Bold puts a land onto the battlefield tapped and creates a 1/1 red Cat token — two separate effects on one two-mana sorcery that pulls double duty as ramp and board presence. Riku of Many Paths copies it for free, which means two lands and two Cats off a single card, and at that point the math just works in your favor.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Riku of Many Paths
Riku of Many Paths copies the first instant or sorcery you cast each turn, so Season of the Bold becomes two landfall triggers and two Cat tokens for two mana — the efficiency is difficult to match at this price point.
Alania, Divergent Storm
Alania, Divergent Storm cares about casting instants and sorceries and generating tokens, so Season of the Bold feeds both axes simultaneously — ramp that also advances the go-wide plan without spending an extra card.
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame wants Cats on the battlefield and spells to fuel her equipment synergies, and Season of the Bold delivers a free body alongside its land drop, which is exactly the kind of incidental board development the deck rewards.
Muerra, Trash Tactician
Muerra, Trash Tactician plays from the graveyard and values cheap spells that generate multiple permanents, making Season of the Bold a clean fit — the land and the token are both usable resources the deck can leverage from the bin.
Galazeth Prismari
Galazeth Prismari converts artifacts and tokens into mana, so the Cat that Season of the Bold produces isn't just a body — it's a future mana source that also happens to arrive alongside a land drop.
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 the Bold is legal in every major constructed format, but Commander is where it actually earns a slot. In Standard and Pioneer it competes against more efficient ramp and token options at the same mana cost, and the two-for-one feel is less impactful in 1v1 where the Cat isn't much of a threat. Modern and Legacy have the same problem compounded — the effect is just too low-powered against the speed of those formats. In Commander, the 40-life cushion and multiplayer dynamics make the token genuinely relevant, landfall synergies are easy to build around, and copy effects like Riku of Many Paths or Strionic Resonator can push Season of the Bold well above its casting cost in raw value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.26 cheap tier
At $1.26, Season of the Bold sits in the comfortable budget tier where you're not making a trade-off — it's cheap enough to slot into any green-red build without hesitation. Given that it's a recent printing with broad Commander appeal, the price is unlikely to spike dramatically, but buying in now while it's this accessible is straightforward.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.