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Simic Growth Chamber

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
GU
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Forgotten Realms Commander
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#279
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Simic Growth Chamber card art
Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped and bounces a land, but it effectively stores two mana in one slot — that tempo cost pays off immediately in decks that want lands in hand or profit from replaying them. Kodama of the East Tree turns every bounce into a free permanent, and Zimone and Dina loops the chamber into a draw-and-drain engine, so the drawback becomes the point.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zimone and Dina

Zimone and Dina

69.1% of decks · synergy 0.52

Zimone and Dina's activated ability rewards you for drawing extra cards, and Simic Growth Chamber's built-in bounce keeps refilling your hand with a land to replay, feeding that loop every turn.

02
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

69.2% of decks · synergy 0.52

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic lets your lands enter untapped while opponents' don't, stripping the primary downside from Simic Growth Chamber and turning it into a free two-mana rock.

03
The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel

43.6% of decks · synergy 0.41

The Wandering Minstrel triggers off lands entering the battlefield, so Simic Growth Chamber — and the land it bounces back to your hand — can fire that ability multiple times in a single turn cycle.

05
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

80.9% of decks · synergy 0.34

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler scores value from playing multiple lands per turn, and Simic Growth Chamber's bounce mechanic manufactures exactly that — a second land drop every rotation through the bounce loop.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Simic Growth Chamber does its best work — the bounce drawback is largely irrelevant at a 100-card singleton table where land-matters commanders turn it into a repeatable value trigger. In Pauper it sees genuine play as budget fixing in Simic tempo and ramp shells, where the two-mana storage effect outweighs the enters-tapped penalty in slower games. Legacy and Vintage both have access to it, but neither format has patience for a tapped land that bounces itself; it doesn't see competitive play there. Pioneer and Standard can't play Simic Growth Chamber at all, so if those are your formats, look elsewhere for fixing.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, Simic Growth Chamber is firmly bulk — borderline free in most trade binders and widely available in reprinted sets. Price stability is a non-issue; it gets reprinted often enough that it's unlikely to spike, and you should just own several copies rather than track the market.

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