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Tribute to the World Tree

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{G}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
March of the Machine
Price
$13.23
EDHREC rank
#581
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Tribute to the World Tree card art
Tribute to the World Tree is a three-mana enchantment that turns every creature entering the battlefield into either a +1/+1 counter dividend or a card draw trigger — whichever side of 3 power the creature lands on. Commanders built around mass token production or large-body recursion, like Ghave, Guru of Spores or Koma, Cosmos Serpent, extract enormous value from it because the triggers compound every turn without additional investment.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Koma, Cosmos Serpent

Koma, Cosmos Serpent

43.6% of decks · synergy 0.38

Koma, Cosmos Serpent generates Koma's Coil tokens every upkeep, and every one of those tokens enters with less than 3 power — meaning Tribute to the World Tree slaps a +1/+1 counter on each of them for free, turning a token engine into a growing board of threats.

03
Koma, World-Eater

Koma, World-Eater

39.4% of decks · synergy 0.34

Koma, World-Eater runs a high density of large creatures that enter above the 3-power threshold, converting every threat into a free card draw through Tribute to the World Tree and sustaining the hand advantage needed to keep deploying those threats.

05

Polukranos Reborn

39.9% of decks · synergy 0.29

Polukranos Reborn enters as a large creature with 4 or more power after its back half transforms, and Tribute to the World Tree rewards that entry with a card draw, making the mana investment in transforming Polukranos Reborn immediately card-neutral.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the natural home for Tribute to the World Tree — 100-card singleton games go long enough that a three-mana enchantment paying dividends on every creature cast over a full table's worth of turns generates an absurd return on investment. In Modern and Pioneer, the card is legal but finds almost no competitive play; the three-mana enchantment slot is brutally contested and creature-based strategies in those formats are looking to close games rather than accrue incremental value. Legacy is technically legal but similarly disinterested — the pace of the format doesn't accommodate slow enchantments that need a board state to function. Tribute to the World Tree is, in practice, a Commander card, and the numbers reflect it: it sees essentially all of its competitive representation at 100-card tables.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmTribute to the World Tree

Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmTribute to the World Tree

Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Garruk's Uprising is the closest budget stand-in — it draws a card when a creature with power 4 or greater enters and gives your big creatures trample, all for three mana, though it ignores small creatures entirely and doesn't distribute +1/+1 counters. Guardian Project hits the draw-on-entry half without the counter clause and costs around $3, making it a solid fallback if Tribute to the World Tree is out of budget, though it only draws when the creature entering is unique rather than triggering on every entry.

Price Context

Current price

$13.23 mid tier

At $13.23, Tribute to the World Tree sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a real purchase, cheap enough that it belongs in any creature-heavy Commander deck that can support triple green. It has held value consistently because its design is format-proof in Commander and there's no functional reprint, so the price is unlikely to collapse anytime soon.

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