Price$0.41 – $25.34
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Creature — Elemental
LegalRank #271
When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.
5/5
KeywordsLandfall
Why is this card good?
Avenger of Zendikar is a token-and-landfall payoff that closes games on the turn it lands. Drop it with 8+ lands and you get an instant army; play a land afterward and your Plants all pump simultaneously. With two land drops (Exploration, Azusa) or a flood of fetches/Crucible loops, those 0/1s become a lethal swing.
It shines in lands-matters and ramp/tokens decks — Tatyova, Aesi, Lord Windgrace, Omnath, and any green deck running mass land drops. It pairs beautifully with overrun effects (Craterhoof, Pathbreaker Ibex, Triumph of the Hordes) since it generates the wide board those cards demand. It's also a strong reanimation/blink target.
Skip it in low-land or non-green-creature builds, or decks that don't capitalize on a wide board — without a payoff or extra land drops, you're just making fragile 0/1s that die to any sweeper. It's a finisher, not a value engine, so play it when you can convert the tokens into damage quickly.
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Finisher to turn Avenger's wide board into lethal damage.
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Printings (15)
Played by these commanders
Ashling, the Limitless100% of 1
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre100% of 1
Omo, Queen of Vesuva100% of 2
Lord Windgrace100% of 1
Marath, Will of the Wild100% of 1
Yuma, Proud Protector100% of 1
Morophon, the Boundless100% of 1
Teval, the Balanced Scale100% of 1
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait100% of 1
Combos (8)
- Esix, Fractal Bloom + Biovisionary + Avenger of Zendikar
→ Win the game
- Biovisionary + Mystic Reflection + Avenger of Zendikar
→ Win the game
- Horde of Notions + Avenger of Zendikar + Phyrexian Altar
→ Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard, Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens
- Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar + Avenger of Zendikar
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Emiel the Blessed + Avenger of Zendikar + Ashnod's Altar
→ Infinite blinking of most creatures, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens
- Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar + Avenger of Zendikar
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens with 0 power, Infinite death triggers
Tokens & Emblemsthis card creates
Rulings (3)
- 2024-11-08
A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.
- 2024-11-08
A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
- 2024-11-08
Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).