Season of the Burrow
Sorcery
Choose up to five 
worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. — Create a 1/1 white Rabbit creature token. — Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller draws a card. — Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with an indestructible counter on it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $2.58
- EDHREC rank
- #3956
Season of the Burrow puts a Rabbit Warren token-generation engine into play for three mana, then keeps feeding it with a triggered tutor every time a Rabbit enters — the whole thing snowballs fast. The cost is real: you need a critical mass of Rabbit payoffs for the engine to matter, and outside tribal shells it's a blank.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Finneas, Ace Archer
Finneas, Ace Archer is the deck Season of the Burrow was built for — Finneas rewards flooding the board with small creatures, and the Burrow's recursive token generation means you're never short of fuel for his ping ability.
Cadira, Caller of the Small
Cadira, Caller of the Small triggers off combat damage by small creatures, so every Rabbit token Season of the Burrow churns out is another attacker feeding that loop.
Baylen, the Haymaker
Baylen, the Haymaker scales on the number of creatures entering and attacking, and Season of the Burrow's sustained token output turns Baylen's triggers from occasional to relentless.
Silverquill, the Disputant
Silverquill, the Disputant cares about wide boards and incremental advantage, and Season of the Burrow provides exactly the kind of steady token supply that keeps the engine humming each turn.
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame wants creatures hitting the battlefield repeatedly to stack counters and triggers, making Season of the Burrow's Rabbit production a natural fit for the strategy.
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 Burrow is legal across every major Constructed format but in practice lives almost exclusively in Commander, where the game length gives its cumulative token engine time to compound. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — a three-mana enchantment that generates incremental value over multiple turns is too slow against decks that close by turn four. Legacy and Vintage are even less hospitable; the power ceiling there is simply too high for a tribal synergy piece with no immediate board impact. Commander is the one format where the Burrow reliably earns its slot, and only in dedicated Rabbit tribal builds at that.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.58 cheap tier
At $2.58, Season of the Burrow sits in the cheap tier — a low-risk inclusion for any Rabbit tribal build without meaningful financial commitment. It's a narrow tribal enchantment with a small target audience, so don't expect the price to move significantly in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.