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Tree of Tales

Artifact Land

{T}: Add {G}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
World Championship Decks 2004
Price
$1.58
EDHREC rank
#1550
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Tree of Tales card art
Tree of Tales enters untapped and taps for green, and in artifact-matters shells it also counts as an artifact land — that dual identity is the whole reason it exists in your deck. Engines like Bootleggers' Stash and commanders like Rendmaw, Creaking Nest treat every artifact as fuel, so a land that doubles as one is simply a free roll.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Tree of Tales carries one restriction that matters: it's banned in Modern, where artifact lands were pulled because they pushed Affinity to an oppressive level. Legacy and Vintage keep it legal under the weight of those formats' power ceilings, and Pauper runs it freely since the common-artifact-land package is a feature, not a bug, there. Commander gives it a full pass — the singleton rule means you can never stack multiples the way Affinity did, and the 100-card singleton context turns Tree of Tales from a broken enabler into a fair, synergy-dense land slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

94.2% of decks · synergy 0.87

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest cares deeply about artifacts entering and leaving play, and Tree of Tales is a land that registers as an artifact on arrival — free artifact trigger on turn one, before you've spent a single card.

03
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

82.9% of decks · synergy 0.76

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch checks for three permanent types among things you've sacrificed or had enter, and Tree of Tales quietly satisfies the artifact clause while functioning as a land — one slot, two boxes checked.

04
Aloy, Savior of Meridian

Aloy, Savior of Meridian

64.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

Aloy, Savior of Meridian generates value off artifact tokens and artifact counts, and Tree of Tales pads that count without costing a spell slot — it's just a land that happens to make the engine run a little harder.

05
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

60.6% of decks · synergy 0.58

Meria, Scholar of Antiquity taps untapped artifacts for mana and triggers, and while Tree of Tales is a land first, it fills the artifact density threshold that keeps Meria's ability live more consistently throughout the game.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Prototype PortalClock of OmensBattered GolemTree of Tales

Prototype PortalClock of OmensBattered GolemTree of Tales

Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite tapped copies of a specific land; Infinite tapped Mountain tokens; Infinite tapped Island tokens; Infinite tapped Forest tokens; Infinite tapped Plains tokens; Infinite tapped Swamp tokens

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Price Context

Current price

$1.58 cheap tier

At $1.58, Tree of Tales sits at the low end of the artifact-land price tier — cheap enough that there's no budget argument against running it in any eligible deck. It's a staple in its niches rather than a casual curiosity, so the price is unlikely to crater, but don't buy it as a spec — buy it because your Rendmaw or Baba Lysaga deck needs it.

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