Vivid Grove
Land
This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it.
: Add 
., Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2017
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #4256
Vivid Grove enters tapped and produces green, but its two charge counters let it tap for any color — a meaningful concession for five-color and three-plus-color Commander decks that need fixing without paying dual-land prices. The drain is real: two uses of off-color mana, then it's a Forest forever, so Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood decks and similar multicolor piles run it as a budget bridge, not a cornerstone.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood cares about +1/+1 counters, and Vivid Grove's charge counters interact directly with that synergy — Xolatoyac can redistribute counters from the land to creatures, effectively converting fixing into stats while refreshing the land's utility in the process.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vivid Grove is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, fetch-and-dual mana bases are strictly better, and entering tapped is disqualifying at those speeds. Modern has access to cheaper, more efficient fixing that doesn't cost tempo. Commander is where Vivid Grove earns its slot: the singleton rule rewards any source of clean five-color fixing, the slower pace makes the enters-tapped penalty manageable, and the budget deckbuilding context means $0.27 buys something dual lands can't.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Vivid Grove sits firmly in bulk territory — it's the kind of card you pull from a box or pick up as a throw-in. It's been reprinted enough to stay cheap, and there's no realistic pressure that pushes the price higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.