Primal Growth

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Primal Growth: Sorcery, Commander Anthology. Kicker-Sacrifice a creature. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{G}
Mana value
3
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Green (G)
Rarity
Common
Set
Commander Anthology (CMA)
Released
2017-06-09
Collector number
137
Artist
rk post
Commander rank
6,261 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Kicker

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About Primal Growth

Primal Growth is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common green sorcery from Commander Anthology (CMA), a Commander product released in June 2017. It is collector number 137 in that set, with art by rk post. It costs {2}{G} (two generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander and PreDH. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Planeshift (2001) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.97 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Kicker-Sacrifice a creature. (You may sacrifice a creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.97 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Primal Growth by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
PremodernLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal

Other printings of Primal Growth

Primal Growth has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
The List (PLST) #PLS-87Common2024
Commander 2015 (C15) #198Common2015
Planeshift (PLS) #87Common2001

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Primal Growth, newest first.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • You may choose not to find any basic lands when you search.
  • Because the "search" requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don't have to find the card if you don't want to.

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