Sporogenesis
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fungus counter on target nontoken creature.
Whenever a creature with a fungus counter on it dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each fungus counter on that creature.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, remove all fungus counters from all creatures.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $3.05
- EDHREC rank
- #17400
Sporogenesis turns every creature you control into a recurring Saproling factory — pay two mana at the end of any turn and each enchanted creature spawns a 1/1, building a board of tokens that scale with your creature count. The setup cost is real, but in token or sacrifice decks the payoff compounds fast enough to justify the enchantment slots.
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 |
Sporogenesis is a Commander card through and through — the slow, cumulative token generation it provides is exactly the kind of engine that thrives in a 40-life multiplayer game where you have multiple turns to build up. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats on paper, but no competitive shell there has any use for a four-mana enchantment that asks you to invest further mana each turn. Oathbreaker is the one adjacent format where Sporogenesis could see fringe play in a green token or aristocrats list, though the 20-life clock compresses timelines enough to make it a marginal inclusion at best.
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Price Context
Current price
$3.05 cheap tier
At $3.05, Sporogenesis sits in budget-friendly territory for an enchantment with this kind of token-generation ceiling. It sees enough play in Commander token and sacrifice shells to keep demand steady, so this price is unlikely to erode significantly.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.