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Ancient Greenwarden

{4}{G}{G}

Creature — Elemental

PZNRZendikar Rising Promos#178smythic

When the ruins awakened, so did their defenses.

Promo
Prerelease
Finishes
Foil
Border
black
Security stamp
oval
Frame
2015
Illustrator
Grzegorz Rutkowski
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal
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
Reach
Plays as:
ETB DoublerLand Recursion
Market · per finishtrend updated 6h ago · prices as of Oct 15, 2026
$19.47 low$0.47 gap
Cheapest playable copy$12.33· across 7 printings· view the cheapest printing ›

Price history

last 30 days · set by the window above · each finish on its own scale
Foil$21.90-2.1%30D
30D range$21.90to$23.18Since Feb 2024:H $25.05L $15.64

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Combos

Rulings

11 · latest Sep 25, 2020
  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    An ability that triggers whenever you play a land won't trigger an additional time.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    Ancient Greenwarden allows you to play a modal double-faced card's land face, but not a nonland face.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    Ancient Greenwarden doesn't allow you to activate abilities (such as cycling) of land cards in your graveyard.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    Ancient Greenwarden doesn't change the times when you can play those lands. You can still play only one land per turn, and only during your main phase when you have priority and the stack is empty.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    Ancient Greenwarden's effect doesn't copy the triggered ability; it causes the ability to trigger twice. Any choices made as you put the ability onto the stack, such as modes and targets, are made separately for each instance of the ability. Any choices made on resolution, such as whether to put counters on a permanent, are also made individually.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    Ancient Greenwarden's third ability affects a land's own enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that trigger when that land enters the battlefield, such as landfall abilities. Such triggered abilities start with "when" or "whenever."

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    If a land entering the battlefield at the same time as Ancient Greenwarden (including Ancient Greenwarden itself if an effect causes it to be a land) causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    If you control two Ancient Greenwardens, a land entering the battlefield causes abilities to trigger three times, not four. A third Ancient Greenwarden causes abilities to trigger four times, a fourth causes abilities to trigger five times, and so on.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    Look at each permanent as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger multiple times. For example, if you control Ashaya, Soul of the Wild, a nontoken creature entering the battlefield will cause any appropriate abilities to trigger an additional time.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    Replacement effects are unaffected by Ancient Greenwarden's third ability. This includes any abilities that apply "as [this land] enters the battlefield" and any ability that says the land enters the battlefield with counters.

  • WotCSep 25, 2020

    The trigger event doesn't have to specifically refer to "lands." For example, an ability that triggers "whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control" would trigger twice if the entering land is also a creature.