Spore Flower
Creature — Fungus
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature.
Remove three spore counters from this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #14517
Spore Flower blanks an entire combat for one green mana — tap it, put a pollen counter on it, and no creatures can attack you next turn as long as you keep feeding it a green mana each upkeep. The catch is that it eats mana every single turn to maintain, which makes it a soft stax piece rather than a hard lock, but in decks that generate green mana in bulk it functions as a repeatable fog on a stick.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spore Flower is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable fog effect is too slow and mana-intensive to matter in Legacy or Vintage, where games end before the pollen engine generates meaningful value. In Commander, it occupies a niche role as a pillow-fort piece in mono-green or heavy-green builds that can sustain the upkeep without feeling it, particularly in slower, creature-heavy pods where combat is the primary threat vector. It's legal in Oathbreaker as well, but the shortened game length cuts against its incremental design. Anywhere outside green-mana-engine decks, the opportunity cost is too high — you're spending a card slot and recurring mana on a conditional deterrent rather than a hard answer.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Spore Flower is firmly bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a niche role that almost no deck actually wants to fill. The price is stable because demand is low and supply is not; don't expect it to move in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.