Is Sporoloth Ancient good in Commander?

Sporoloth Ancient

Creature — Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature.
Creatures you control have "Remove two spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token."

CMC: 5
Mana cost
Color identity: G
Rarity: common
Set: Future Sight
Price: $0.17
EDHREC rank: #8827

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Sporoloth Ancient turns every creature you control into a walking spore factory — its static ability lets all your creatures with spore counters remove two counters instead of three to make a Saproling, effectively doubling your token output without any extra spend. The five-mana body is clunky, but in dedicated spore-counter builds alongside Evolution Sage and Slimefoot, the Stowaway, the throughput gain is immediate and hard to match at this price.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Slimefoot, the Stowaway

60.1% of decks · synergy 0.58

Slimefoot, the Stowaway turns every Saproling death into a drain trigger, so Sporoloth Ancient's counter-cost reduction directly translates to more tokens entering and dying — more damage, more life gained, faster clock.

Shroofus Sproutsire

22.6% of decks · synergy 0.22

Shroofus Sproutsire cares about fungi and tokens broadly, and Sporoloth Ancient accelerates the Saproling pipeline that fuels both the commander's triggers and any go-wide finish the deck is building toward.

Ghave, Guru of Spores

16.2% of decks · synergy 0.16

Ghave, Guru of Spores can consume and create tokens at will, and Sporoloth Ancient's faster counter removal feeds that loop with more raw material — extra Saprolings mean more fodder for Ghave's sacrifice-and-rebuild engine.

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

14.5% of decks · synergy 0.14

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain rewards a wide board of small tokens, and Sporoloth Ancient reliably accelerates Saproling production to keep that board wide and threatening.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Sporoloth Ancient actually lives — spore-counter synergies are a niche that exists almost exclusively in EDH, and the card does nothing in formats without a supporting cast of fungi and proliferate effects. In Pauper it's legal but sees no play; at five mana it offers no rate advantage in a format that demands efficiency, and spore counters have no competitive infrastructure there. Legacy and Vintage treat it as a blank; it's nowhere near the power floor those formats demand. Oathbreaker is possible in the same niche builds that run it in Commander, but the 20-life starting total compresses the game too fast for a five-drop that doesn't immediately change the board state.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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