Price$12.16 – $18.15
Buy on TCGplayerAncient Greenwarden
Creature — Elemental
LegalRank #662
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
You may play lands from your graveyard.
If a land entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
5/7
KeywordsReach
Why is this card good?
Ancient Greenwarden is a powerhouse landfall payoff and one of the best green ramp-engine pieces in the format.
The card does two huge things: it doubles every landfall trigger you control, and it lets you replay lands from your graveyard. Stack it with fetches, Evolving Wilds, or sacrifice effects and you're double-triggering everything. With Lotus Cobra you make double mana; with Tireless Provisioner you make double Treasures/Food; with Avenger of Zendikar or Scute Swarm you flood the board with tokens.
Who wants it: any landfall or lands-matter deck — Lord Windgrace, Omnath (all flavors), Aesi, Tatyova, Ashaya. It's effectively a second Crucible of Worlds plus a Doubling Season for landfall. The 5/7 reach body also blocks fliers and survives most board wipes' smaller damage.
When to skip it: if you have few or no landfall triggers, it's just a vanilla 5/7 with marginal recursion. Don't run it in non-landfall green decks expecting impact — it needs the engine to shine.
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Printings (7)
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