Town Greeter
Creature — Human Citizen
When this creature enters, mill four cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. If you put a Town card into your hand this way, you gain 2 life. (To mill four cards, a player puts the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #8253
Town Greeter enters the battlefield and immediately puts a card in your graveyard — that's the whole pitch, and in self-mill strategies it's exactly what you want on a two-mana body. The cost is that a 2/2 for 2 with no other text is unplayable outside of decks that treat the graveyard as a resource, but Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis decks are precisely that kind of deck.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis needs creatures and cards in the graveyard to convoke and delve out ahead of schedule, and Town Greeter feeds both counts on the same turn it enters — it's a creature that mills a creature.
The Wandering Minstrel
The Wandering Minstrel rewards stacking the graveyard with instants and sorceries, and Town Greeter's self-mill on entry gives the deck a cheap, repeatable way to load up targets without spending card advantage.
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath escapes from the graveyard and wants it stocked fast; Town Greeter is a low-cost enabler that puts cards there while leaving a body on board to sacrifice or block.
Sin, Spira's Punishment
Sin, Spira's Punishment leverages graveyard density as part of its scaling threat, and Town Greeter is the kind of cheap, incidental mill piece that keeps the engine humming without eating a real card slot's worth of value.
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 |
Town Greeter is legal across every major format but earns a real role in exactly one: Commander, inside dedicated graveyard-value shells. In Pauper it's a common, but a 2/2 that mills one is nowhere near competitive enough for that format's card-quality bar. Modern and Pioneer have self-mill synergies but also have far more efficient options at the same price point, so Town Greeter doesn't crack those lists. Commander is where the math works — the singleton format rewards cheap, redundant graveyard enablers, and Town Greeter's floor of a creature plus a mill-one is acceptable filler in decks that need critical mass rather than raw efficiency.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Town Greeter is deep bulk — pick it up in any common trade pile or as a throw-in with an order. Bulk commons at this price point don't appreciate, so buy it when you need it and don't think twice about the cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
- The Wandering Minstrel
- Six
- Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
- Sin, Spira's Punishment
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.