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Shu Farmer

Creature — Human

{T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Portal Three Kingdoms
Price
$3.11
EDHREC rank
#29066
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Shu Farmer card art
Shu Farmer enters the battlefield and puts a Plains directly onto the battlefield tapped — straightforward land acceleration that costs two mana and a creature slot. The reason it sees any serious play is Agatha's Soul Cauldron, which can exile it from the graveyard and distribute its activated abilities to other creatures, turning a humble 1/1 into a repeatable land-drop engine.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Shu Farmer is fringe — a two-mana body that fetches one Plains is well below the bar for dedicated ramp slots unless the deck has a specific reason to want creatures in the graveyard or on the battlefield with that ability. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but will never touch it; those formats have no interest in a 1/1 that finds a basic. Pauper is the most honest home: white-based creature strategies can occasionally use the body and the land, and the common slot makes it competitively priced for the format's constraints. Shu Farmer is a bulk common in almost every context, and its value ceiling is entirely determined by combo adjacency rather than standalone playability.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.11 cheap tier

At $3.11, Shu Farmer sits well above bulk-common pricing purely on the strength of its combo interactions — the card would otherwise be a $0.10 throw-in. That price is fragile; a reprint or a meta shift away from the engines that exploit it would push it back toward bulk immediately.

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