Undergrowth Recon
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4388
Undergrowth Recon puts lands directly onto the battlefield from your graveyard, turning self-mill and sacrifice loops into a free ramp engine with minimal setup cost. Baba Lysaga, Night Witch decks in particular treat it as a must-answer threat — every permanent sacrificed is a land step closer to an overwhelming board state.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch constantly sacrifices permanents to trigger her own ability, and Undergrowth Recon converts that sacrifice fodder into lands hitting play — the two cards form a tightening loop where each activation makes the next one cheaper.
Yuma, Proud Protector
Yuma, Proud Protector mills lands as a core mechanic, and Undergrowth Recon turns that graveyard accumulation into immediate mana acceleration rather than letting the lands sit idle.
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster rewards land drops aggressively, and Undergrowth Recon feeds directly into that payoff by replaying lands from a graveyard that fills naturally through Gitrog's own draw-from-land-death trigger.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Undergrowth Recon is legal across every major constructed format but it's a Commander card through and through — the graveyard-to-battlefield land recursion scales with the long-game loops and sacrifice engines that define EDH, not the speed of Pioneer or Modern. In those 60-card formats, three mana for an enchantment that doesn't impact the board immediately is simply too slow against aggressive and tempo-oriented fields. Commander is where the math flips: a single activation in a Gitrog or Baba Lysaga shell can recover two to three lands in one turn cycle, and the enchantment sticks around to keep paying off.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Price data for Undergrowth Recon isn't resolved in the current dataset, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow-but-deep role in graveyard-land strategies, it typically prices like a niche Commander staple — worth picking up if you're building any of the commanders above.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.