Spawning Bed
Land
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, , Sacrifice this land: Create three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add ."
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #4136
Spawning Bed converts six mana and a sacrifice into three 1/1 Eldrazi Scion tokens that each tap for colorless — a slow payoff that only justifies itself when you're flooding the board for a specific trigger. In Ulalek, Fused Atrocity decks, that's exactly what's happening: three bodies entering simultaneously means three separate Ulalek triggers stacking on the stack.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
Spawning Bed's three Scions entering at once each trigger Ulalek, Fused Atrocity separately, letting you copy a cast spell three times from a single activation — that's the entire reason it shows up in over a third of Ulalek lists.
Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut
Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut turns every artifact creature into a 5/3 trampler, and the three Eldrazi Scion tokens Spawning Bed produces slot directly into that army — cheap bodies that also double as emergency mana if the attack doesn't close the game.
The Capitoline Triad
The Capitoline Triad cares about having multiple creatures entering and contributing to sacrifice synergies, and Spawning Bed delivers three tokens at once while its own sacrifice fuels the chain — that combination is why it lands in over a quarter of Triad lists.
Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Spawning Bed's Scion tokens provide the colorless mana fixing that Kozilek, the Great Distortion demands, and sacrificing the bed itself is trivial once the tokens are on board to ramp into Kozilek a turn earlier.
Purphoros, God of the Forge
Three creatures entering simultaneously means Purphoros, God of the Forge deals six damage the turn Spawning Bed resolves — it's a payoff-dense rate for one activation, even if six mana is a steep ask in a red shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spawning Bed is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero competitive play outside Commander — six mana for three 1/1s is not a rate any 60-card format wants. In Commander it finds a home in artifact-heavy or Eldrazi tribal strategies where the token type matters, particularly in colorless builds that need on-demand sacrifice fodder or mana acceleration. The card is at its best when a single trigger — Ulalek, Purphoros, Graaz — converts all three entering bodies into outsized value, turning a mediocre rate into a three-for-one payoff.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Spawning Bed is firmly bulk — pick it up in any common bin or as a throw-in. That price is stable; there's no trajectory pushing it up, and it will stay in this range unless a new colorless commander dramatically spikes Eldrazi Scion demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.