Cultivate
Mana Cost:
Type: Sorcery
Oracle Text:
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: common
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Doctor Who
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Character Background
With a name like Cultivate and classic green mechanics, this sorcery is pure ramp/value: it smooths colors, accelerates your land count, and helps you reliably hit mid- to late-game bombs. It best supports ramp and midrange plans (and combo decks that need a high land count to enable a payoff), not aggro — you trade immediate tempo for a more resilient resource base. Practical tips: include it in Commander or standard ramp shells and pair it with Azusa, Lost but Seeking or Tireless Provisioner so the land you put into your hand can be played the same turn, or with Amulet of Vigor to untap a tapped land. It also slots into Scapeshift or Field of the Dead builds that value multiple basics; keep a healthy complement of basics in your list so Cultivate finds targets. Cast on curve around turns two–three, or earlier with mana dorks, and prioritize fixing the colors you’re short of to enable your next big play.
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