Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #75
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth turns every land on the battlefield into a Forest, which means any green deck's mana fixing becomes trivially easy and non-basics tap for green without a second thought. The cost is real — Life and Limb becomes an instant board wipe for all lands if someone removes Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth at the wrong moment, and Omo, Queen of Vesuva builds around that interaction deliberately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva runs Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth because making every land a Forest sets up the Life and Limb combo that Omo's counters engine can exploit for explosive recursive plays. It's the card most central to what that deck is actually trying to do.
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods cares deeply about lands entering and leaving the battlefield, and Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth ensures every nonbasic land in the deck can contribute green mana without dedicated fixing. That frees Lumra, Bellow of the Woods to run powerful utility lands without losing access to the color it needs most.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider excavates artifact treasures and lands across multiple zone interactions, and Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth keeps green mana flowing even when the land base is stretched thin by off-color utility lands. The floor is strong mana consistency; the ceiling is combo enablement.
Captain Sisay
Captain Sisay tutors legendary permanents, and Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth is legendary — which means Sisay can find it on demand whenever the deck needs green mana smoothing or wants to set up a Forest-based synergy. It's both a toolbox piece and a mana-fixing safety valve in the same slot.
Titania, Protector of Argoth
Titania, Protector of Argoth triggers off Forests being put into the graveyard, and Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth retroactively makes every land on board qualify as a Forest for those triggers. Sacrifice outlets that eat non-basic lands suddenly generate 5/3 Elementals, which changes the math on every land destruction or fetchland effect in the deck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth earns its reputation — 99-card decks stuffed with nonbasic utility lands benefit enormously from a blanket Forest grant, and the legendary supertype means commanders like Captain Sisay can find it on demand. In Legacy, it sees fringe play in green stompy and lands-matter shells where consistent Forest access matters for cards like Crop Rotation targets or threshold effects. Modern has the tools to use it, but the format's faster clock means a three-mana land rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated combo builds pairing it with Life and Limb. Vintage is legal but the card is too slow for that format's texture. Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth is, in practice, a Commander card — the slower pace and synergy-dense environments are exactly where it thrives.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Yavimaya, Cradle of GrowthLife and LimbElesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Destroy all lands opponents control; Destroy all lands that enter the battlefield under an opponent's control; Lock; Mass Land Denial
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Yavimaya, Cradle of GrowthLiving LandsElesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Destroy all lands opponents control; Destroy all lands that enter the battlefield under an opponent's control; Lock; Mass Land Denial
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Linvala, Keeper of SilenceYavimaya, Cradle of GrowthLife and Limb
Opponents can't activate abilities of lands or creatures they control; Lock; Mass Land Denial
View combo details →Linvala, Keeper of SilenceYavimaya, Cradle of GrowthLiving Lands
Opponents can't activate abilities of lands or creatures they control; Lock; Mass Land Denial
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Drana and LinvalaYavimaya, Cradle of GrowthLife and Limb
Opponents can't activate abilities of lands or creatures they control; Lock; Mass Land Denial
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.