Waiting in the Weeds
Sorcery
Each player creates a 1/1 green Cat creature token for each untapped Forest they control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $1.86
- EDHREC rank
- #20815
Waiting in the Weeds puts a 1/1 green Cat token into play for each Forest in play — yours and your opponents' — so a table of green players can dump a dozen bodies onto your side for four mana. The catch is that opponents with Forests also net tokens, making this a political card that rewards being the most Forest-heavy player at the table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Waiting in the Weeds is a niche token generator that scales with green-heavy tables — the more opponents running Forests, the more lopsided the value if you're built to exploit the tokens immediately. Legacy and Vintage legality is academic; no competitive shell wants a four-mana sorcery with this level of variance and opponent dependency. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: it only earns a slot in dedicated token or Cat-tribal strategies where the token ceiling justifies the setup cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.86 cheap tier
At $1.86, Waiting in the Weeds sits in the cheap tier — reasonable for a casual Commander inclusion that sees almost no demand outside niche tribal builds. The price is stable at that floor; there's no broad demand driver that would push it higher.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.