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Verdant Touch

Sorcery

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Target land becomes a 2/2 creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Tempest Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#25394
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Verdant Touch card art
Verdant Touch turns a land into a mana dork permanently — no upkeep cost, no creature type to remove, just a land that taps for green on top of its normal output. The ceiling is highest under Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements and similar elementals-matter commanders where every animated permanent becomes a payoff, but even outside tribal synergy this is a clean two-mana enchantment that pulls double duty as ramp and setup.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Verdant Touch is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — the formats where it's actually worth discussing. Commander is its home: permanent land animation slots neatly into ramp packages, and the enchantment subtype matters for synergy-dense builds. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically available but the effect is too slow and low-impact to compete at those power levels. Oathbreaker is the secondary sweet spot, where two-mana permanent buffs carry more weight in a lower-power, 60-card environment.

Key Combos

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Shantotto, Tactician MagicianMind Over MatterEmpowered AutogeneratorVerdant Touch

Shantotto, Tactician MagicianMind Over MatterEmpowered AutogeneratorVerdant Touch

Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite colored mana; Near-infinite charge counters on a permanent; Near-infinitely powerful creature until end of turn

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Price Context

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