Tumbleweed Rising
Sorcery
Create an X/X green Elemental creature token, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Plot 
(You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #12681
Tumbleweed Rising puts a potentially massive trampling Elemental onto the battlefield for three mana — the token's power and toughness equal your land count, so it scales hard in any green deck that hits eight or more lands. It's a legitimate late-game threat that costs almost nothing to include.
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 |
In Commander, Tumbleweed Rising earns its slot in any green deck that routinely hits ten-plus lands — landfall builds, Valakut-style ramp shells, and Simic goodstuff all turn it into a 12/12 or bigger trampler for three mana. Outside Commander, the card is legal in every major format but sees almost no competitive play: Pioneer and Modern move too fast for a sorcery-speed token that requires land investment to become threatening, and Legacy has Marit Lage for that archetype. Pauper is the one non-Commander venue worth watching if aggressive land-matters strategies ever coalesce there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Tumbleweed Rising is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any common/uncommon bin without a second thought. Bulk rares with genuine Commander upside rarely spike hard, but this one does exactly what it says on the tin for essentially zero financial commitment.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.