Vineshaper Prodigy
Creature — Elf Druid
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #22628
Vineshaper Prodigy puts a +1/+1 counter on any target creature when it enters and again when it leaves, stapling two triggers onto a single body for two mana. That's a clean rate for counter-synergy decks, and the death trigger means opponents can't even remove it for free.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vineshaper Prodigy is a Commander card in practice — the +1/+1 counter payoffs and aristocrats-adjacent triggers that make it worthwhile exist almost exclusively in that format's redundancy-hungry, synergy-dense environment. In Pauper it's technically legal and the mana cost is palatable, but the effect is too slow and too low-impact for a format that demands immediate board presence or card advantage. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all move too fast for a 1/1 that distributes single counters; no competitive shell at those power levels is interested in what Vineshaper Prodigy offers. Stick to Commander, where the synergy density justifies it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Vineshaper Prodigy is deep bulk — the floor price for a card that sees narrow, synergy-dependent play. There's no meaningful price upside here unless a future Commander precon or high-profile deck pushes counter-on-ETB/LTB loops into the spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.