Yavimaya Scion
Creature — Treefolk
Protection from artifacts
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #29183
Yavimaya Scion is a five-mana 3/3 with protection from artifacts — a body that trades at parity with most threats and blanks Swords to Plowshares in specific metas, but does nothing proactive for the cost. Five mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature is unacceptable in Commander's current power environment.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Yavimaya Scion sees essentially no competitive play anywhere it's legal. In Commander, five mana for a 3/3 with a narrow protection ability doesn't clear the bar when green has access to Mulldrifter-level efficiency on creatures at every point on the curve. In Pauper, where commons are actually evaluated on rate, artifact-heavy shells do exist, but a 3/3 for five with no enters-the-battlefield effect still doesn't make the cut. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the formats move too fast for a card this slow. Yavimaya Scion is legal in four formats and playable in none of them.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Yavimaya Scion is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a collection binder and never gets called up. There's no realistic demand driver that changes that, so treat it as a throw-in and nothing more.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.