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Spore Swarm

Instant

Create three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Foundations Jumpstart
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#10041
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Spore Swarm card art
Spore Swarm puts three 1/1 Saproling tokens on the board at instant speed for four mana — the instant speed is the whole point, letting you trigger Slimefoot, the Stowaway on your opponent's end step and hold up interaction on your own turn. It's not efficient by raw stats, but it's a clean role-player that loops well with Archaeomancer and any spell-recursion package.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Slimefoot, the Stowaway

Slimefoot, the Stowaway

48.7% of decks · synergy 0.47

Slimefoot, the Stowaway turns every Saproling death into a drain trigger, so Spore Swarm's three bodies are effectively three damage and three life the moment they hit the sacrifice outlet — and the instant speed means you're doing it at end of turn rather than telegraphing on your own.

02
Shroofus Sproutsire

Shroofus Sproutsire

28.4% of decks · synergy 0.27

Shroofus Sproutsire rewards repeated token production, and Spore Swarm's three-at-once burst slots neatly into the go-wide, attack-every-turn gameplan he incentivizes.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Spore Swarm is a Commander card through and through — the instant speed and Saproling typing matter enormously in a format built around sacrifice synergies, token doublers, and aristocrats engines, and nowhere else. In Modern and Pioneer it's strictly underpowered; four mana for three 1/1s has no competitive application when efficient threats dominate those formats. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but there's no realistic shell that wants it. Commander is the only context where Spore Swarm earns a slot, and even there only in decks that specifically care about Saprolings or instant-speed token generation.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Spore Swarm is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking about it. Bulk uncommons with narrow tribal applications don't appreciate, so treat it as a utility inclusion rather than anything to acquire in volume.

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