Wild Growth is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional.
Complete guide
Wild Growth is a classic mana acceleration tool that turns any land into an upgraded resource generator. By attaching this aura to a land, you ensure that every time it is used for mana, you get a little extra boost to cast your spells faster.
What It Does
Wild Growth is an Aura with the Enchant Land keyword. Once it is attached to a land, it monitors whenever that specific land is tapped for mana. When that condition is met, Wild Growth triggers its own ability to add an extra Green mana to the controller's mana pool. This is a triggered mana ability, meaning it does not use the stack and resolves immediately after the land is tapped.
Resolution Step by Step
First, you must cast Wild Growth and choose a target land; it enters the battlefield attached to that land. Second, when you activate an ability of that land that includes the tap symbol in its cost and produces mana, Wild Growth's ability triggers. Third, the additional Green mana is added to your mana pool instantly. Note that this extra mana is produced by the enchantment, not the land itself.
Common Mistakes
A common point of confusion is thinking the land itself is producing the extra mana. This is incorrect; if an effect cares about what a land produces, it will not count the Green mana from Wild Growth. Additionally, if a land is tapped for a purpose other than mana (such as an utility ability), Wild Growth will not trigger.
When to Play It
Wild Growth is most effective in the early turns of the game to ramp your mana production ahead of your opponent. It is also useful in strategies that involve untapping lands, as you get the bonus mana every single time the land is tapped for a mana ability during a single turn.
Interaction examples
Urza's SagaIf you attach Wild Growth to Urza's Saga while it is on chapter I or II, tapping the Saga for its mana ability will result in one Colorless mana from the land and one Green mana from the enchantment. This works even though Urza's Saga is an Enchantment Land.
If you use the chapter II ability of Urza's Saga to create a Construct token by paying two mana and tapping it, Wild Growth will not trigger. This is because tapping the land was part of a cost for a non-mana ability, rather than tapping the land for mana.
Hardened ScalesIf you have both Wild Growth and Hardened Scales on the battlefield, they do not interact directly. Tapping an enchanted land provides extra mana, while Hardened Scales only affects +1/+1 counters being placed on creatures. This highlights that Wild Growth is strictly for mana acceleration.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Wild Growth
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The additional mana is not an ability of the land and is not something the land can produce.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Argothian Elder + Wirewood Lodge + Wild Growth
- 1Activate a land by tapping it, adding at least
. - 2Wild Growth triggers, adding .
- 3Activate Wirewood Lodge's second ability by paying and tapping it, untapping Argothian Elder.
- 4Activate Argothian Elder by tapping it, untapping the land tapped in step 1 and Wirewood Lodge.
- 5Repeat.
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Pili-Pala + Wild Growth
- 1Activate Pili-Pala by tapping it, adding .
- 2Activate Pili-Pala by paying
and untapping it, adding one mana of any color. - 3Repeat.
Silvanus's Invoker + Agatha of the Vile Cauldron + Wild Growth
- 1Activate the land with Wild Growth attached by tapping it, adding .
- 2Wild Growth triggers, adding .
- 3Activate Silvanus's Invoker by paying , untapping Gruul Turf and causing it to become an 8/8 Elemental with trample and haste in addition to its other types until end of turn.
- 4Repeat.
Earthcraft + Luminarch Ascension + Wild Growth
- 1Activate the Plains by tapping it, adding
. - 2Wild Growth triggers, adding .
- 3Activate Luminarch Ascension by paying , creating a 4/4 Angel creature token.
- 4Activate Earthcraft by tapping the Angel, untapping the Plains.
- 5Repeat.
Toph, the First Metalbender + Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth + Staff of Domination + Wild Growth
- 1Activate Staff of Domination by tapping it, adding as it's a Forest land due to Toph and Yavimaya.
- 2Wild Growth triggers, adding .
- 3Activate Staff of Domination's first ability by paying , untapping it.
- 4Repeat.
Earthcraft + Ant Queen + Wild Growth
- 1Activate Ant Queen by paying , creating a creature token
- 2Activate Earthcraft by tapping the creature token, untapping a basic Forest.
- 3Activate the Forest by tapping it, adding
- 4Wild Growth triggers, adding
- 5Repeat
Earthcraft + Wild Growth + Sliver Queen
- 1Activate Sliver Queen by paying , creating a creature token
- 2Activate Earthcraft by tapping the creature token, untapping the basic land that has Wild Growth attached.
- 3Activate the land by tapping it, adding
- 4Wild Growth triggers, adding
- 5Repeat
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger + Deserted Temple + Rings of Brighthearth + Wild Growth
- 1Activate Simic Growth Chamber by tapping it, adding
. - 2Wild Growth and Vorinclex's first ability trigger, adding
. - 3Activate Deserted Temple's second ability by paying and tapping it, targeting itself.
- 4Rings of Brighthearth triggers, causing you to pay to copy Deserted Temple's ability, with the copy targeting Simic Growth Chamber.
- 5Resolve both Deserted Temple abilities, untapping it and Simic Growth Chamber.
- 6Repeat.
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