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Wildgrowth Archaic

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Converge — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, that creature enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2/G}{2/G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.79
EDHREC rank
#16932
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Wildgrowth Archaic card art
Wildgrowth Archaic puts a permanent +1/+1 counter engine on the table — every spell your opponents cast feeds it, and that flow of counters cascades into mana or power without any extra investment from you. The cost is real: five mana is a lot to ask before the card does anything, and Crystalline Crawler is doing a similar counter-to-mana trick at four mana with more combo upside. Run Wildgrowth Archaic when your deck, like Aragorn, Hornburg Hero shells, is built to exploit counters at volume — otherwise it's a slow value piece in a slot that wants more urgency.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Aragorn, Hornburg Hero

Aragorn, Hornburg Hero

7.7% of decks · synergy 0.07

Aragorn, Hornburg Hero triggers off allies entering and spells resolving in ways that stack counters fast, and Wildgrowth Archaic turns that counter accumulation into a self-sustaining resource engine — every spell your opponents cast accelerates the whole machine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Wildgrowth Archaic scales with the number of opponents casting spells, which means a four-player table generates counters at a rate no other format can match — that's where it belongs. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it costs five mana and relies entirely on what opponents do, which is too passive and too slow to matter. Legacy and Vintage have enough broken things happening at one and two mana that a five-drop value engine doesn't register. Standard is the one 60-card context where it's at least castable, but the lack of reliable counter payoffs keeps it fringe at best. Stick to Commander, and specifically to decks with a counter synergy theme.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.79 bulk tier

At $0.79, Wildgrowth Archaic sits firmly in bulk rare territory, which is accurate for a card with narrow Commander applications and no competitive format presence. Bulk rares at this price tend to stay flat unless a breakout combo or popular precon pushes demand, so don't expect movement.

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