Temple Garden
Land — Forest Plains
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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #82
Temple Garden enters untapped if you pay 2 life, making it one of the cleanest ways to put both a Forest and a Plains into play on turn one without tempo loss. It's a staple — Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful runs it in over 84% of decks, and any Selesnya or four-color shell that touches white and green has no reason to skip it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful runs a tight, fast mana base that can't afford tap-lands, and Temple Garden's ability to come in untapped for 2 life is exactly the kind of no-excuse dual it demands across its four-color identity.
Brigid, Clachan's Heart
Brigid, Clachan's Heart is a white-green commander that wants to hit its mana on curve, and Temple Garden provides both colors untapped from turn one with no hoops beyond the life payment.
Captain Sisay
Captain Sisay is a two-mana legendary that wants to resolve early and start tutoring, so having a reliable untapped source of both white and green on turn one is exactly what Temple Garden delivers.
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician runs a four-color identity where white and green show up early and often, and Temple Garden earns its slot as a consistent, untapped source of both on the first two turns.
Marath, Will of the Wild
Marath, Will of the Wild is a three-color commander that lives on hitting white, red, and green mana on curve, and Temple Garden covers two of those three colors untapped from the opening hand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Temple Garden is legal and actively played everywhere it's allowed — Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker. In Commander it's a near-automatic inclusion in any deck whose color identity contains both white and green, full stop. In competitive Modern and Pioneer it anchors Selesnya and four-color creature strategies that can't afford the tempo cost of a tap-land on the first two turns. Legacy uses it more selectively given access to original dual lands, but it still shows up in budget shells and alongside fetchlands. The one format where it's absent is Pauper, which excludes it by rarity.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available right now, but Temple Garden has been reprinted several times and typically sits in the $8–$15 range depending on printing — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market price. Any version is functionally identical, so grab the cheapest printing you can find.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
- Brigid, Clachan's Heart
- Captain Sisay
- Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
- Marath, Will of the Wild
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.