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Steward of the Harvest

Creature — Human Druid

When this creature enters, exile up to three target land cards from your graveyard.
Creatures you control have all activated abilities of all land cards exiled with this creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
Price
$0.46
EDHREC rank
#8334
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Steward of the Harvest card art
Steward of the Harvest generates a Food token whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, turning any creature-heavy engine into a stream of free life and sacrifice fodder — and in the right shell, that fodder feeds infinite loops like Staff of Domination. The cost is a four-mana 2/4 body that does nothing on its own; Teval, the Balanced Scale and similar commanders make that tradeoff worth it, everyone else probably doesn't.

Best Commanders

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Teval, the Balanced Scale

Teval, the Balanced Scale

33.8% of decks · synergy 0.29

Teval, the Balanced Scale rewards you for sacrificing high-toughness permanents, and Steward of the Harvest turns every creature ETB into a fresh Food with toughness to offer — keeping the sacrifice engine fed without spending cards from hand.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Steward of the Harvest is a Commander card through and through — the passive trigger only compounds over a long game with multiple creature ETBs, and four mana for a 2/4 is simply too slow for Legacy or Vintage where it's technically legal. In Commander, it slots into Food-matters, token, or aristocrats builds that can exploit the continuous stream of artifacts it produces. Oathbreaker is the one competitive-ish format where it could see fringe play, but only if the planeswalker and signature spell generate enough creature traffic to make the engine hum.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.46 bulk tier

At $0.46, Steward of the Harvest is pure bulk — grab it out of a commons box or toss it into any order to hit free shipping. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications rarely climb unless a new commander pushes them into the spotlight, so don't expect the price to move meaningfully.

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