Nervous Gardener card art

Nervous Gardener

Creature — Dryad MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Disguise (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

When this creature is turned face up, search your library for a land card with a basic land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Combos with Nervous Gardener

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Yedora, Grave Gardener Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Put all lands with a basic land type from your library into your hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Yedora, Grave Gardener Evolutionary Leap Tireless Provisioner Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Put all creature cards from your library into your hand
    • Put all lands with a basic land type from your library into your hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

12 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-02-02

    The creature spell is a 2/2 creature spell with ward 2 that has no name, mana cost, or creature types. The resulting creature is a 2/2 creature with ward 2 that has no name, mana cost, or creature types. Both the spell and the resulting creature are colorless and have a mana value of 0. Other effects that apply to the spell or creature can still grant it any characteristics it doesn't have or change the characteristics it does have.

  • 2024-02-02

    Because the permanent is on the battlefield both before and after it's turned face up, turning a permanent face up doesn't cause any enters-the-battlefield abilities to trigger.

  • 2024-02-02

    If a face-down spell leaves the stack and goes to any zone other than the battlefield (if it was countered, for example), you must reveal it. Similarly, if a face-down permanent leaves the battlefield, you must reveal it. You must also reveal all face-down spells and permanents you control if you leave the game or the game ends.

  • 2024-02-02

    The face-down spell has no mana cost and a mana value of 0. When you cast a face-down spell, put it on the stack face down so no other player knows what it is, and pay 3 to cast it. This is an alternative cost.

  • 2024-02-02

    You must ensure that your face-down spells and permanents can be easily differentiated from each other. You're not allowed to mix up the cards that represent them on the battlefield to confuse other players. The order in which they entered the battlefield should remain clear, as well as what ability caused them to be face down. (This includes disguise, cloak, and in games involving older cards, morph and manifest, as well as a few other effects that turn cards face down.) Common methods for doing this include using markers or dice, or simply placing them in order on the battlefield.

  • 2024-02-02

    If a face-down creature loses its abilities, it can't be turned face up with a disguise ability because it will no longer have a disguise ability (or a disguise cost) once face up.

  • 2024-02-02

    At any time, you can look at a face-down spell or permanent you control. You can't look at face-down permanents or spells you don't control unless an effect instructs or allows you to do so.

  • 2024-02-02

    A disguise ability lets you cast a card face down by paying 3 and announcing that you are using a disguise ability. Any time you have priority, you can turn a face-down permanent with disguise face up by paying its disguise cost.

  • 2024-02-02

    Turning a permanent face up or face down doesn't change whether that permanent is tapped or untapped.

  • 2024-02-02

    Because face-down creatures don't have a name, they can't have the same name as any other creature, even another face-down creature.

  • 2024-02-02

    A permanent that turns face up or face down changes characteristics but is otherwise the same permanent. Spells and abilities that were targeting that permanent and Auras and Equipment that were attached to that permanent aren't affected unless the new characteristics of the object change the legality of those targets or attachments.

  • 2024-02-02

    Any time you have priority, you may turn the face-down creature face up by revealing what its disguise cost is and paying that cost. This is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to. Only a face-down permanent can be turned face up this way; a face-down spell cannot.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Nervous Gardener, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Duskana, the Rage Mother 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 1 deck

Nervous Gardener price history

The Murders at Karlov Manor #169 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.25▲ $0.08 (47.1%)
Low $0.17 · High $0.25Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Nov 11, 2026$0.25$0.16
Nov 10, 2026$0.25$0.15
Nov 7, 2026$0.25$0.16
Nov 2, 2026$0.25$0.15
Oct 31, 2026$0.24$0.15
Oct 29, 2026$0.22$0.14
Oct 27, 2026$0.20$0.14
Oct 26, 2026$0.19$0.14
Oct 24, 2026$0.20$0.14
Oct 17, 2026$0.21$0.14
Oct 15, 2026$0.20$0.14
Oct 12, 2026$0.21$0.14
Oct 11, 2026$0.19$0.14
Oct 4, 2026$0.18$0.14
Oct 2, 2026$0.19$0.14
Sep 30, 2026$0.19$0.15
Sep 28, 2026$0.17$0.15

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Nervous Gardener

1 printing, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Nervous Gardener. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.