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Sporesower Thallid

Creature — Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control.
Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Time Spiral Remastered
Price
$0.32
EDHREC rank
#8560
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Sporesower Thallid card art
Sporesower Thallid accelerates every other fungus on the board by adding a spore counter to each one at the start of your upkeep — a passive engine that compounds fast in dedicated tribal builds. It's not as explosive as Evolution Sage, but it's more consistent, and Slimefoot, the Stowaway turns every saproling it generates into drain damage and life gain.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Slimefoot, the Stowaway

Slimefoot, the Stowaway

58.6% of decks · synergy 0.57

Slimefoot, the Stowaway converts every saproling token Sporesower Thallid accelerates into a damage-and-lifegain trigger, so the faster Sporesower pushes fungi to pop, the more each saproling is worth — it's the deck this card was built for.

02
Shroofus Sproutsire

Shroofus Sproutsire

25.3% of decks · synergy 0.24

Shroofus Sproutsire rewards flooding the board with fungus and saproling tokens, and Sporesower Thallid's passive counter acceleration means the whole tribe moves in lockstep toward payoffs rather than each creature operating on its own schedule.

03
Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave, Guru of Spores

17.2% of decks · synergy 0.17

Ghave, Guru of Spores consumes and produces tokens with surgical efficiency, and Sporesower Thallid feeds that loop by pushing fungi to their pop threshold faster — every saproling Ghave makes is potential fuel for more spore-counter acceleration.

04
Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

16.3% of decks · synergy 0.16

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain leans on consistent token production to trigger infest-style payoffs, and Sporesower Thallid ensures the fungus side of that engine isn't bottlenecked by waiting three upkeeps per creature.

05
The Mycotyrant

The Mycotyrant

15.0% of decks · synergy 0.13

The Mycotyrant scales with the number of fungi and saprolings entering the battlefield, so Sporesower Thallid's role is straightforward: compress the timeline on every fungus pop and keep the token density high enough to feed The Mycotyrant's growth.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Sporesower Thallid actually lives — a 101-card singleton environment gives fungus tribal enough redundancy to make the passive counter-spreading worthwhile, and the longer games mean the compounding upkeep triggers have time to matter. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; four mana for a 4/3 with no immediate impact is unplayable in those formats. Modern is the same story — the card is legal but there's no competitive fungus shell to put it in, and slower creature strategies don't survive long enough to exploit its upkeep trigger. Sporesower Thallid is a Commander card through and through, full stop.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.32 bulk tier

At $0.32, Sporesower Thallid sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without hesitation if you're building fungus tribal, because there's no meaningful price barrier here. It's unlikely to spike given its narrow tribal niche, so buy the copy you need and don't worry about acquiring extras.

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