Ancient Greenwarden
Reprinted in Star Trek Commander (TRC), releasing November 13, 2026.
Ancient Greenwarden: Creature - Elemental, Foundations Jumpstart. Reach. You may play lands from your graveyard. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{G}{G}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Creature - Elemental
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Power / toughness
- 5/7
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart (J25)
- Released
- 2024-11-15
- Collector number
- 627
- Artist
- Grzegorz Rutkowski
- Commander rank
- 685 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Reach
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About Ancient Greenwarden
Ancient Greenwarden is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare green creature from Foundations Jumpstart (J25), a draft-focused set released in November 2024. It is collector number 627 in that set, with art by Grzegorz Rutkowski. It costs {4}{G}{G} (four generic and two green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/7 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Zendikar Rising (2020) to Foundations Jumpstart (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $13.81 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $13.81 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ancient Greenwarden by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Ancient Greenwarden
Ancient Greenwarden has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Star Trek Commander (TRC) #298 | Mythic | 2026 |
| Star Trek Commander (TRC) #457 | Mythic | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2059 | Mythic | 2025 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) #186 | Mythic | 2024 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #83772 | Mythic | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #178p | Mythic | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #178s | Mythic | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising (ZNR) #178 | Mythic | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising (ZNR) #357 | Mythic | 2020 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Ancient Greenwarden, newest first.
- Ancient Greenwarden allows you to play a modal double-faced card's land face, but not a nonland face.
- 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.
- Ancient Greenwarden doesn't allow you to activate abilities (such as cycling) of land cards in your graveyard.
- An ability that triggers whenever you play a land won't trigger an additional time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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