Topiary Panther
Creature — Plant Cat
Trample
Basic landcycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #13723
Topiary Panther enters as a 3/3 and fetches a basic land — a body and ramp on a single card. The cost is three mana, which is fair, and the payoff scales hard in Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood where a 3-power creature on entry converts directly into mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
Topiary Panther enters with 3 power, which Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood converts into three red mana the same turn — ramp that immediately pays back the investment and fuels the next spell through Gilanra's draw trigger.
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
Topiary Panther is a Beast, which means Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists can pull it out of the deck and put it directly onto the battlefield — land fetch plus a free 3/3 without spending a card.
Kirri, Talented Sprout
Topiary Panther is a Plant, and Kirri, Talented Sprout triggers off every Plant entering — so the Panther simultaneously advances the land count and pushes Kirri's counters-and-proliferate engine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Topiary Panther is a bulk common, so the question in every format is whether a 3/3 land-fetcher at three mana clears the bar — and the answer varies sharply. In Commander it does: the body is relevant, the land enters untapped, and creature-typed ramp synergizes with everything from tribal payoffs to Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood's power-to-mana conversion. In Pauper and Pioneer it's too slow and too fair to compete with dedicated ramp spells or aggressive creatures at the same cost. Modern and Legacy have no interest — the rate is just nowhere near the power floor those formats demand. Topiary Panther is a Commander card first and a draft-table common second.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Topiary Panther is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not buying a single. That price is stable by definition; bulk commons don't spike unless a combo breaks them wide open, and nothing on the horizon suggests that here.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
- Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
- Kirri, Talented Sprout
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.