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Tireless Provisioner

Creature — Elf Scout

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$2.96
EDHREC rank
#179
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Tireless Provisioner card art
Tireless Provisioner turns every land drop into a Food or Treasure, which means it's both ramp and life gain stapled to a three-mana body — and in landfall-heavy shells like Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy, the token output compounds fast enough to matter. The cost is that it does nothing without land drops, so it's dead weight in a stalled board; Springheart Nantuko, by contrast, generates value from creature plays instead, so the two fill different roles rather than competing.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

79.2% of decks · synergy 0.69

Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy triggers off artifacts entering the battlefield, so each Treasure Tireless Provisioner makes is also a Gimbal trigger — land drops translate directly into 0/2 Gremlin tokens and cascading artifact synergies.

02
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

79.8% of decks · synergy 0.61

Hazel of the Rootbloom copies the first triggered ability you control each turn, which means every landfall trigger from Tireless Provisioner can be doubled — one land drop becomes two tokens without any extra investment.

03
The Cabbage Merchant

The Cabbage Merchant

77.7% of decks · synergy 0.61

The Cabbage Merchant cares about Food tokens specifically, and Tireless Provisioner is one of the most reliable repeatable Food sources in green, generating one per land drop across the entire game.

04
Jolene, the Plunder Queen

Jolene, the Plunder Queen

69.7% of decks · synergy 0.60

Jolene, the Plunder Queen rewards Treasure production with +1/+1 counters and pressures opponents to deal damage, so Tireless Provisioner's steady stream of Treasures feeds both Jolene's counters engine and the mana acceleration the deck needs to close games.

05
Frodo, Adventurous HobbitSam, Loyal Attendant

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant

79.8% of decks · synergy 0.59

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant leans on Food tokens to trigger Frodo's damage-dealing ability, and Tireless Provisioner provides a consistent, low-cost source of Food that scales with however many land drops the deck makes each turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Tireless Provisioner earns its keep — longer games mean more land drops, and a card that converts each one into a Treasure or Food compounds in value over 40-turn pods in ways it simply can't in 1v1 formats. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage it's technically legal but sees essentially no play; three mana for a 3/2 with a conditional triggered ability can't compete in formats where the game is often decided by turn three or four. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's DNA — slower, more card-for-card value-oriented — that Tireless Provisioner is a reasonable include there too, particularly in green landfall or treasure-matters builds.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$2.96 cheap tier

At $2.96, Tireless Provisioner sits at the low end of staple pricing for a card with genuine multi-deck utility — it's cheap enough to slot into any landfall or treasure build without a second thought. Demand is broad but not spiking, so the price is stable; don't expect it to move much in either direction.

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