Wasteful Harvest
Instant
Mill five cards. You may put a permanent card from among the cards milled this way into your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #14921
Wasteful Harvest puts two +1/+1 counters on a creature and draws a card — meaningful on-board impact stapled to a cantrip for two mana. In any deck running Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant, that's a free trigger waiting to happen the moment your creature attacks.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant rewards you for attacking with creatures that have counters, and Wasteful Harvest stacks two at instant speed while replacing itself — it's exactly the kind of low-cost setup spell that keeps the engine running without costing you a card.
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 |
Wasteful Harvest is a Commander card through and through — the combination of counter placement and card draw fits neatly into the slower, value-oriented pace of the format. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, two mana for a cantrip that doesn't advance your board state faster than your opponent is too passive to earn a slot. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it might see fringe play in a dedicated +1/+1 counter shell, but even there it faces stiff competition from more efficient options. Legacy and Vintage have no interest.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Wasteful Harvest sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up in any common pile without a second thought. Bulk commons almost never appreciate, so grab it now if you need it and don't look back.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.