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Sporemound

Creature — Fungus

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#3324
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Sporemound turns every land drop into a 1/1 Saproling, which makes it a meaningful board-presence engine on its own — paired with Life and Limb, it becomes an infinite loop that wins on the spot. The five-mana cost is real, but Slimefoot, the Stowaway decks pay it without hesitation because the payoff is that lopsided.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Shroofus Sproutsire

Shroofus Sproutsire

45.3% of decks · synergy 0.42

Shroofus Sproutsire rewards flooding the board with fungus and Saproling tokens, and Sporemound supplies them automatically off land drops without requiring any extra investment.

03
Zimone and Dina

Zimone and Dina

26.9% of decks · synergy 0.26

Zimone and Dina puts extra land drops on the stack repeatedly, which means Sporemound is generating a stream of Saprolings each turn cycle rather than just one — that token volume feeds Dina's drain ability directly.

04
The Mycotyrant

The Mycotyrant

25.4% of decks · synergy 0.23

The Mycotyrant scales on the number of fungi and Saprolings you control, and Sporemound provides a steady, low-effort supply of both fuel types to pump the commander's power and toughness.

05
Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave, Guru of Spores

19.2% of decks · synergy 0.18

Ghave, Guru of Spores wants a constant supply of token fodder to sacrifice and redistribute counters, and Sporemound delivers Saprolings passively every time a land enters — no activation cost required.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Sporemound does its real work: the format's slower pace gives you time to land a five-drop, and the Life and Limb combo is a known, buildable win condition rather than a fringe interaction. In Pauper, Sporemound is legal and theoretically interesting, but a five-mana 3/3 with no immediate board impact is too slow to compete without dedicated land-drop support that the format's mana base can't reliably provide. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage are all legal on paper, but Sporemound is not a card those formats want — the rate is too low and the payoff too conditional for competitive 60-card environments. Play it in Commander, specifically in Saproling or landfall shells, and ignore every other format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Sporemound is deep bulk — a card you pick up from a dollar bin without thinking twice. The price is stable because demand is niche and supply is plentiful, so don't expect movement in either direction.

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