Farmer Cotton has exploded in price this past month. Jumping from 66 cents to $7.50 from the beginning of July, This creature is capable of creating a lot of tokens. If you want to wreak havoc with Doubling Season and a ton of mana, Farmer Cotton is a great way to do it. Of course, with the return of Food, Farmer Cotton is gaining even more new homes in the Commander format.
Farmer Cotton
- Mana Value: XGW
- Rarity: Rare
- Stats: 1/1
- MTG Sets: Commander: Lord of the Rings
- Card Text: When Farmer Cotton enters the battlefield, create X 1/1 white Halfling creature tokens and X Food tokens.
Farmer Cotton fits into a wide range of different MTG decks. Token matters decks, Food decks, go-wide decks, and X-cost decks could all be interested in this card. As long as you have a ton of mana and some intuitive ways to use the payoffs that Farmer Cotton offers, it could be a powerful addition to your MTG deck. You can find Farmer Cotton in the Food and Fellowship Commander precon.
Farmer Cotton is a Legendary creature, so it could even be used as your Commander. Three Tree City is a rather big Bloomburrow upgrade for this card as a Commander. Since you create a ton of white Halfling creature tokens with Farmer Cotton’s ability, Three Tree City can easily tap for a ton of mana. Just name Halfling.
Making the most of Farmer Cotton is surprisingly easy. Making use of large token-based boards is not difficult, but you do have to go out of your way to make the best of your Food tokens. Fortunately, breaking them is not that difficult. Night of Sweet’s Revenge and Jaheira, Friend of the Forest turns your Food tokens into Mox Emeralds. Samwise Gamgee can both create Food tokens and utilize them to get back other resources. Inspiring Statuary, while not as good as Jaheira and Night of Sweet’s Revenge, can turn your Food into cost reduction effects.
Otherwise, Farmer Cotton is an incredible addition to the 99 of the new Bloomburrow Commander Baylen, the Haymaker. This Rabbit cares about tokens, and Farmer Cotton happens to create a ton of those. You can use these tokens to draw cards, grow Baylen into a Voltron-level threat, or ramp for mana.
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Farmer Cotton Price Increases Across Variants
While the original printing of Farmer Cotton started spiking last month, rarer versions of the card are only starting to see price spikes now. The Scroll Showcase version of Farmer Cotton from the Special Edition Lord of the Rings Collector Booster Packs, the same packs that have the Borderless Poster variants of cards seeing massive price spikes. Worth a market average of only $1 until recently, these cards are now starting to spike past $10. This seems like rarer variants of the card catching up to the price of the original variant to us, but the recent change has brought attention to this Farmer regardless.
Farmer Cotton is incredibly versatile and easy to take advantage of. It’s not the best big mana payoff in a void, but if you can make use of the resources that this card generates, there’s little reason to play something else.
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