Shared Roots
TLA · uncommon · Released 2025-11-21
Power
Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).
Derived from the 7 atoms below.
on rate
minor value alone
fits anywhere
fixed effect
one mode
broadly useful
n/a
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No active conflicts.
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Rationale
2cmc sorcery — fetch a basic land onto the battlefield tapped; a strictly weaker Cultivate (gets one land, not two, and puts no card in hand). As a Lesson, it can be tutored by Learn spells, giving it niche relevance in Strixhaven-era draft formats but minimal Commander value. It competes directly with Cultivate and Farseek in singleton formats and loses badly; relegated to budget precon territory or mono-green basic-heavy lists.
Learnings (2)
Shared Roots is a Lesson subtype, meaning it can be fetched from outside the game by any card with the Learn mechanic, giving it marginal extra relevance in Limited environments with Learn spells but no impact in Commander where sideboards don't exist.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Compared to Cultivate (also 3 mana), Shared Roots costs one less mana but yields only one land entering tapped with nothing to hand — it's strictly worse in nearly every Commander context and is primarily a budget or precon inclusion.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #1,743