Farmer Cotton
Farmer Cotton: Legendary Creature - Halfling Peasant, Tales of Middle-earth Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {X}{G}{W}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Halfling Peasant
- Colour identity
- White and green (WG)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)
- Released
- 2023-06-23
- Collector number
- 55
- Artist
- Tomas Duchek
- Commander rank
- 2,912 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Food
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Farmer Cotton
Farmer Cotton is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white and green legendary creature from Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC), a Commander product released in June 2023. It is collector number 55 in that set, with art by Tomas Duchek. It costs {X}{G}{W} (X, one white and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is white and green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Tales of Middle-earth Commander is its only printing so far. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.53 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
When this creature enters, create X 1/1 white Halfling creature tokens and X Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
"So it's begun at last! I've been itching for trouble all this year."
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.53 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Farmer Cotton by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Farmer Cotton
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #459 | Rare | 2023 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #138 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Farmer Cotton, newest first.
- You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
- Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a white and green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Farmer Cotton is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.