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Verdant Sun's Avatar

Creature — Dinosaur Avatar

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{5}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Legends
Price
$0.43
EDHREC rank
#2075
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Verdant Sun's Avatar card art
Verdant Sun's Avatar turns every creature you put into play into a life payment in your favor — the trigger fires on any creature entering under your control, not just Dinosaurs, which means it scales hard in token and tribal shells alike. The seven-mana price tag is real, but Trudge Garden and Gishath, Sun's Avatar decks are happy to pay it because the payoff is immediate, on-board, and impossible to counter after the Avatar resolves.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

65.3% of decks · synergy 0.55

Gishath, Sun's Avatar cheats Dinosaurs into play in batches, and every one of those free enters-the-battlefield triggers nets life through Verdant Sun's Avatar — a single Gishath attack can swing your life total by twenty or more without any additional setup.

02
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

45.0% of decks · synergy 0.35

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored's discover triggers chain Dinosaurs into play one after another, and Verdant Sun's Avatar converts each of those cascading enters into a life swing that keeps you out of lethal range while the engine builds.

03
Owen Grady, Raptor TrainerBlue, Loyal Raptor

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor

30.5% of decks · synergy 0.30

Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer // Blue, Loyal Raptor distributes +1/+1 counters across a steady stream of creatures, and Verdant Sun's Avatar stacks life gain on top of that stream, rewarding the same wide board Owen wants anyway.

04
Atla Palani, Nest Tender

Atla Palani, Nest Tender

39.4% of decks · synergy 0.29

Atla Palani, Nest Tender cracks Eggs to dump massive creatures directly into play, and Verdant Sun's Avatar charges you life for each one — a single Egg popping into an 8-power Dinosaur can net eight or more life before your opponent has a chance to respond.

05
Kona, Rescue Beastie

Kona, Rescue Beastie

25.9% of decks · synergy 0.22

Kona, Rescue Beastie builds a parade of large creatures over multiple turns, and Verdant Sun's Avatar turns that steady flow of big enters-the-battlefield triggers into a life buffer that is genuinely difficult for aggro decks to race.

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

Verdant Sun's Avatar is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer life totals and the volume of creatures entering play in tribal or token strategies are exactly the conditions that make its trigger matter. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it is theoretically legal but never played; seven mana for a 5/5 with a non-infinite life gain trigger cannot compete with the card-efficiency bar those formats demand. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer DNA and could theoretically support Verdant Sun's Avatar in a creature-heavy shell, but the 20-life starting total makes the payoff less dramatic than it looks.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Treebeard, Gracious HostScurry OakVerdant Sun's Avatar

Treebeard, Gracious HostScurry OakVerdant Sun's Avatar

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.43 bulk tier

At $0.43, Verdant Sun's Avatar sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it a zero-friction inclusion for any Dinosaur or creature-flood deck that wants the effect. Bulk rares with narrow tribal homes tend to stay cheap, so treat this as a pick-up-and-sleeve card rather than anything to hold.

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