Yasharn, Implacable Earth
Legendary Creature — Elemental Boar
When Yasharn enters, search your library for a basic Forest card and a basic Plains card, reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Players can't pay life or sacrifice nonland permanents to cast spells or activate abilities.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.78
- EDHREC rank
- #4847
Yasharn, Implacable Earth shuts off every sacrifice outlet and fetch-payment effect on the board the moment it enters — that's a static lock stapled to a 4/4 body that also replaces itself with two basic lands. The four-mana cost is real, but the ETB ramp means you're not losing tempo to deploy what amounts to a creature-based Aether Storm; Captain Sisay tutors it directly, which tells you everything about where this card belongs.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Captain Sisay
Captain Sisay tutors Yasharn, Implacable Earth directly onto the battlefield, giving the deck an on-demand lock piece that turns off opposing sacrifice engines while Sisay keeps assembling her legendary chain.
Ellivere of the Wild Court
Ellivere of the Wild Court runs a creature-dense, token-adjacent strategy where opponents often threaten sacrifice-based removal; Yasharn, Implacable Earth's static ability protects the board while the ETB ramp fuels Ellivere's enchantment gameplan.
Karametra, God of Harvests
Karametra, God of Harvests wants a deep creature count and basic land acceleration, so Yasharn, Implacable Earth earns its slot on the ETB ramp alone before the stax text even factors in.
Emiel the Blessed
Emiel the Blessed blinks creatures repeatedly, and Yasharn, Implacable Earth's enter-the-battlefield land fetch stacks with every bounce — each re-entry grabs two more basics while the sacrifice lock stays in place.
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster's land-centric gameplan welcomes the free basic ramp on entry, and Yasharn, Implacable Earth's restriction on paying life or sacrificing non-lands lines up cleanly with the deck's broader stax and taxation package.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Yasharn, Implacable Earth earns its reputation — the format is saturated with sacrifice outlets, fetchland activations, and life-payment effects, and a single resolved Yasharn taxes or outright stops most of them. In Modern and Legacy, the four-mana cost is too steep for a format-defining role, though it sees fringe sideboard consideration in creature-heavy Selesnya shells against sacrifice-based strategies. Pioneer has even less room for it given the speed of the format, but the card is legal and playable in creature toolbox decks willing to pay the cost. Oathbreaker gives it a second home as a signature spell or maindeck piece in similarly stax-oriented builds. Vintage has no real use case for it; the format moves too fast for a four-mana creature to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Yasharn, Implacable EarthAether Storm
Players can't cast creature spells; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.78 bulk tier
At $0.78, Yasharn, Implacable Earth is firmly bulk despite the genuine stax impact — the effect is narrow enough that most decks don't want it, which keeps the price floor low. It's a strong pickup at this price for any Captain Sisay or Karametra, God of Harvests build, and there's no financial risk acquiring copies now.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Aether Storm
- Captain Sisay
- Ellivere of the Wild Court
- Karametra, God of Harvests
- Emiel the Blessed
- Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.