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Verdeloth the Ancient
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Verdeloth the Ancient

{4}{G}{G}

Legendary Creature — Treefolk

Kicker {X} (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)

Saproling creatures and other Treefolk creatures get +1/+1.

When Verdeloth enters, if it was kicked, create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

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Kicker
Set
Foundations Jumpstart (J25 #737)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
6
Released
2024-11-15
Artist
Daren Bader
EDHREC rank
#7,554
Colour identity
{G}
Finishes
Nonfoil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.05
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Nemata, Grove Guardian 62 %+59.1 %
  2. Verdant Force 60 %+57.3 %
  3. Tendershoot Dryad 54 %+49.4 %
  4. Sporemound 51 %+47.8 %
  5. Saproling Symbiosis 50 %+47.1 %
  6. Sporecrown Thallid 48 %+44.7 %
  7. Mycoloth 48 %+44.6 %
  8. Kalonian Twingrove 40 %+38.6 %
  9. Fungal Plots 42 %+38.5 %
  10. Fangorn, Tree Shepherd 38 %+37.9 %
  11. Dungrove Elder 40 %+37.6 %
  12. Utopia Mycon 40 %+36.9 %
  13. Fungal Sprouting 38 %+36.3 %
  14. Bosk Banneret 37 %+36.2 %
  15. Thelonite Hermit 37 %+35.0 %
  16. Verdant Embrace 36 %+34.1 %
  17. Fungal Rebirth 36 %+33.5 %
  18. Shroofus Sproutsire 34 %+33.3 %
  19. Psychotrope Thallid 35 %+32.6 %
  20. Thallid 33 %+32.2 %
  21. Timber Protector 33 %+32.2 %
  22. Sapling Nursery 39 %+32.0 %
  23. Treefolk Harbinger 33 %+31.8 %
  24. Jade Mage 31 %+29.6 %
  25. Brightcap Badger 33 %+29.6 %
  26. Druidic Satchel 30 %+29.0 %
  27. Thallid Shell-Dweller 30 %+28.7 %
  28. Scatter the Seeds 30 %+28.4 %
  29. Dauntless Dourbark 29 %+28.0 %
  30. Sporesower Thallid 29 %+27.9 %
  31. Spore Swarm 29 %+27.8 %
  32. Orchard Warden 28 %+27.6 %
  33. Life and Limb 30 %+27.5 %
  34. Doubling Season 40 %+26.7 %
  35. Rampant Growth 69 %+26.4 %
  36. Night Soil 28 %+26.0 %
  37. Saproling Migration 27 %+25.8 %
  38. Vitaspore Thallid 26 %+25.3 %
  39. Second Harvest 32 %+24.8 %
  40. Naturalize 31 %+24.6 %
  41. Sprout Swarm 26 %+24.4 %
  42. Skyshroud Claim 43 %+24.1 %
  43. Lumberknot 25 %+24.1 %
  44. Heartwood Storyteller 26 %+23.8 %
  45. Reach of Branches 24 %+23.4 %
  46. Caged Sun 30 %+23.0 %
  47. Undercellar Myconid 25 %+23.0 %
  48. Sporoloth Ancient 23 %+22.3 %
  49. Parallel Lives 28 %+21.6 %
  50. Overrun 29 %+20.9 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Forest 95 %-1.2 %
  2. Rampant Growth 69 %+26.4 %
  3. Cultivate 66 %+14.7 %
  4. Sol Ring 65 %-5.5 %
  5. Nemata, Grove Guardian 62 %+59.1 %
  6. Verdant Force 60 %+57.3 %
  7. Kodama's Reach 54 %+16.5 %
  8. Tendershoot Dryad 54 %+49.4 %
  9. Emerald Medallion 53 %+8.5 %
  10. Sporemound 51 %+47.8 %
  11. Saproling Symbiosis 50 %+47.1 %
  12. Llanowar Elves 50 %-4.0 %
  13. Mycoloth 48 %+44.6 %
  14. Sporecrown Thallid 48 %+44.7 %
  15. Beast Within 45 %-12.4 %
  16. Skyshroud Claim 43 %+24.1 %
  17. Fungal Plots 42 %+38.5 %
  18. Nature's Lore 41 %+2.3 %
  19. Kalonian Twingrove 40 %+38.6 %
  20. Doubling Season 40 %+26.7 %
  21. Utopia Mycon 40 %+36.9 %
  22. Dungrove Elder 40 %+37.6 %
  23. Sapling Nursery 39 %+32.0 %
  24. Elvish Mystic 38 %-7.6 %
  25. Shamanic Revelation 38 %+18.1 %
  26. Fangorn, Tree Shepherd 38 %+37.9 %
  27. Fungal Sprouting 38 %+36.3 %
  28. Bosk Banneret 37 %+36.2 %
  29. Oran-Rief, the Vastwood 37 %+18.6 %
  30. Thelonite Hermit 37 %+35.0 %
  31. Verdant Embrace 36 %+34.1 %
  32. Fungal Rebirth 36 %+33.5 %
  33. Three Visits 35 %+5.5 %
  34. Psychotrope Thallid 35 %+32.6 %
  35. Heroic Intervention 34 %-13.6 %
  36. Shroofus Sproutsire 34 %+33.3 %
  37. Wild Growth 33 %+7.4 %
  38. Thallid 33 %+32.2 %
  39. Timber Protector 33 %+32.2 %
  40. Treefolk Harbinger 33 %+31.8 %
  41. Brightcap Badger 33 %+29.6 %
  42. Second Harvest 32 %+24.8 %
  43. Naturalize 31 %+24.6 %
  44. Jade Mage 31 %+29.6 %
  45. Explore 30 %+8.0 %
  46. Sylvan Anthem 30 %+19.3 %
  47. Circle of Dreams Druid 30 %+16.0 %
  48. Scatter the Seeds 30 %+28.4 %
  49. Thallid Shell-Dweller 30 %+28.7 %
  50. Druidic Satchel 30 %+29.0 %

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2013-06-07

    Verdeloth won't give himself +1/+1 unless he somehow becomes a Saproling.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

  • 2024-11-08

    If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

  • 2024-11-08

    If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.

  • 2024-11-08

    If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

  • 2024-11-08

    The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

  • 2024-11-08

    To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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