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Seed the Land

Enchantment

Whenever a land enters, its controller creates a 1/1 green Snake creature token.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Saviors of Kamigawa
Price
$2.90
EDHREC rank
#15976
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Seed the Land card art
Seed the Land turns every land drop across the table into a 1/1 Snake token — yours and your opponents' — which means the board floods fast and anyone who runs lands benefits, so you need a plan to exploit that symmetry. Grismold, the Dreadsower and Kodama of the East Tree are the clearest exploiters: Grismold grows on every token your opponents get, and Kodama chains permanents off each token you make.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Grismold, the Dreadsower

Grismold, the Dreadsower

35.8% of decks · synergy 0.35

Grismold, the Dreadsower turns the symmetry of Seed the Land into a one-sided advantage — every Snake token that hits an opponent's side powers up Grismold, and every token you make feeds your own board state until Grismold swings as a massive trampler.

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

Seed the Land is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card in practice. The effect is too slow and too symmetrical for Legacy and Vintage, where games end before a land-drop engine generates meaningful tokens, and the card sees essentially zero competitive play in those formats. In Commander, the symmetry that makes it unplayable elsewhere becomes a design puzzle worth solving — pair it with a commander that scales off token quantity or opponent tokens, and the enchantment does real work over a long game. Oathbreaker is a viable home for the same reason, though the faster pace shrinks the window.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$2.90 cheap tier

At $2.90, Seed the Land sits in the cheap tier — accessible enough to throw into any token or land-matters build without a second thought. It's a niche card with a dedicated audience, so the price is stable rather than climbing; don't expect movement unless a high-profile Commander deck pushes it into the spotlight.

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