Price$4.11 – $22.15
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Land
LegalRank #187
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
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Why is this card good?
Spire Garden is a near-auto-include in any Gruul (or Gruul-containing) deck. The "two or more opponents" clause is essentially free in Commander — multiplayer games almost always start with three or four players, so this enters untapped the vast majority of the time. That makes it functionally a dual land that only punishes you in 1v1 or late games where you've been reduced to a single opponent.
Who wants it: Every Gruul ramp, aggro, or stompy deck, and any multicolor deck whose identity includes both red and green (Jund, Naya, Temur, etc.). Fixing your colors with an untapped dual is exactly what aggressive and ramp-heavy strategies need to curve out and cast their commanders on time.
When to skip it: Almost never in EDH proper. The only real downside is the cluttered-board scenario where you're heads-up with one opponent — but if you're regularly playing 1v1, you've got a different format and better duals exist.
Cheap, reliable, and basically a Stomping Ground without the life loss.
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- 2018-06-08
If you began the game with two or more opponents but now only have one opponent left, these lands enter the battlefield tapped.