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Wood Sage

Creature — Human Druid

{T}: Choose a creature card name. Reveal the top four cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
rare
Set
Tempest Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#21357
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Wood Sage card art
Wood Sage taps to reveal cards from the top of your library equal to the number of creatures sharing a name with one you name — raw card selection that scales with redundancy and goes infinite with Intruder Alarm. The cost is real: it only finds creatures, it requires a creature-heavy board to shine, and Katilda and Lier is currently the deck that exploits it best.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Katilda and Lier

Katilda and Lier

18.9% of decks · synergy 0.19

Katilda and Lier runs dense creature packages with overlapping tribe or typal synergies, giving Wood Sage a reliably wide naming target — and the Intruder Alarm lines that already live in those decks turn every Wood Sage activation into a deck-churning engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Wood Sage is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where the conversation starts and ends — Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table. In Legacy and Vintage it has no meaningful role; those formats don't support the creature-density and combo scaffolding Wood Sage needs, and there are strictly faster engines available. Commander is the only context where Wood Sage earns a slot, specifically in creature-heavy decks running Intruder Alarm lines or heavy tribal redundancy that makes the naming clause hit multiple cards at once.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Wood SageIntruder AlarmMortuaryAshnod's Altar

Wood SageIntruder AlarmMortuaryAshnod's Altar

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Wood Sage isn't available in our feeds, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its narrow application and low demand outside dedicated combo shells, it typically sits in bulk-rare territory — worth picking up cheaply if you're building the right deck, not worth hunting down otherwise.

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