Sylvan Offering
Sorcery
Choose an opponent. You and that player each create an X/X green Treefolk creature token.
Choose an opponent. You and that player each create X 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- New Capenna Commander
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #4850
Sylvan Offering puts a pile of tokens on the board the turn you cast it — the X cost scales from early pressure to late-game flood, and splitting the output between you and an opponent opens political lines that cards like Aggravated Assault can immediately exploit. Galadriel, Elven-Queen decks run it because every token handed to an opponent feeds her draw trigger, turning generosity into card advantage. It's a workhorse, not a finisher, but the ceiling is high enough that it earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Galadriel, Elven-Queen
Galadriel, Elven-Queen rewards opponents for having creatures, so handing them a stack of Elf tokens via Sylvan Offering directly fuels her card-draw engine while leaving you with an equal or larger army. The political cover is a bonus; the raw card advantage is the reason.
Grismold, the Dreadsower
Grismold, the Dreadsower grows whenever a creature dies, and Sylvan Offering dumps Plant tokens into opponents' yards the moment they're answered — each removal spell or board wipe your opponents cast becomes a +1/+1 counter on Grismold. The Elf tokens you keep are just the combat reward.
Witherbloom, the Balancer
Witherbloom, the Balancer cares about life totals shifting across the table, and Sylvan Offering generating tokens for multiple players creates the kind of asymmetric board states Witherbloom wants to police. Seeding opponents with Plants also sets up future sacrifice fodder for Witherbloom's own effects.
Thromok the Insatiable
Thromok the Insatiable feeds on the number of creatures sacrificed to him, and Sylvan Offering is one of the cleanest ways to build a wide board of Elf tokens for a single devour trigger. Cast it for X=5 and you're feeding Thromok a ten-power clock.
Gluntch, the Bestower
Gluntch, the Bestower is built around strategic gifting, and Sylvan Offering fits the same political identity — handing tokens to one opponent while keeping your own army is exactly the kind of table negotiation Gluntch decks weaponize. Sylvan Offering gives you a spell that looks generous and plays like a threat.
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 |
Sylvan Offering is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer table is where splitting tokens between you and an opponent goes from a drawback to a political lever, and X spells scale naturally into the late-game mana pools Commander produces. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes in formats where a sorcery-speed token generator at X cost has no competitive role. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons as Commander: the 20-life starting total and faster games make the token flood relevant sooner. Outside those formats, Sylvan Offering simply doesn't exist.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Sylvan OfferingAggravated AssaultEarthcraft
Infinite combat phases; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana basic lands you control can produce
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Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Sylvan Offering is bulk — cheap enough to grab without thought and unlikely to spike given its narrow Commander-specific appeal. It holds that floor comfortably; nothing about its role as a political token generator suggests meaningful price movement in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.