Tato Farmer
Creature — Zombie Mutant Peasant
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may get two rad counters.
: Put target land card in a graveyard that was milled this turn onto the battlefield under your control tapped.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $1.70
- EDHREC rank
- #4024
Tato Farmer enters the battlefield and immediately starts building an army — each end step, it generates a 1/1 Food token creature, which is a novel token type that pulls double duty as a body and a resource. It's the bread-and-butter engine in The Master, Transcendent decks, and the cost of a three-mana 2/2 is easy to stomach when the payoff compounds every single turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Master, Transcendent
Tato Farmer is a core piece in The Master, Transcendent's Minion-token strategy — every Food/creature token it produces at end step is a Minion for The Master to copy, buff, or sacrifice for value, turning a single three-drop into an exponentially growing army.
The Wise Mothman
The Wise Mothman distributes rad counters whenever a player mills, and Tato Farmer's steady end-step token production gives The Wise Mothman a wide board to work with while the mill engine keeps grinding opponents' libraries down.
Coram, the Undertaker
Coram, the Undertaker cares about the highest power among cards exiled by combat damage, and Tato Farmer's reliable token stream gives Coram a repeatable sacrifice outlet and extra attackers to fuel that exile engine each turn.
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 |
Commander is where Tato Farmer lives — it's legal but purpose-built for the 100-card multiplayer environment, where a slow, repeatable end-step engine has time to generate a meaningful board presence across a long game. Legacy and Vintage technically allow it, but a three-mana 2/2 that makes 1/1s over multiple turns has no realistic place in formats that win by turns two and three. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where Tato Farmer could see fringe play if the signature spell generates enough token synergy to justify the pace. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table by legality.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.70 cheap tier
At $1.70, Tato Farmer sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to slot in without deliberation for any deck that wants token volume. It's a Fallout set card with a narrow but dedicated home, so the price is unlikely to crater further but also unlikely to climb without a reprint or a breakout new commander.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Master, Transcendent
- The Wise Mothman
- Coram, the Undertaker
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.