Gaea's Cradle
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.
Gaea's Cradle is a green card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Urza's Saga printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€1041.38) · TCGplayer ($1630.77) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €993.96 and €1300.98 in that time.
Also printed with a gold border in World Championship Decks 1999, for less. Gold-bordered copies aren't tournament legal, but some Premodern events allow them: where, and what they save.
How often Gaea's Cradle is played
Gaea's Cradle is maindecked in 4 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (3%), averaging 3.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 62 decks that can cast green cards, 4 of them play it (6%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Gaea's Cradle
- Elves: One green mana for each creature you control, so it taps for more as your board grows and for nothing once a sweeper has emptied it. It is a legendary nonbasic land, not a Forest: Quirion Ranger cannot return it, and Wasteland, Dust Bowl and Rishadan Port can target it. A second copy is a spare or extra mana once: tap the first, play the second as your land drop and keep the untapped one.
Tournament decks with Gaea's Cradle
- Elves: 1st Place at Empoli #2 Phyrexian Academy (4× mainboard)
- Natural Elves: 1st Place at European Masters 2026 Valencia (4× mainboard)
- Rofellos Order Survival: 3rd Place at Eternal Echoes @ Gamerz Paradise (3× mainboard)
- Sneaky Survival: 4th Place at Urduliz Link Up (1× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Gaea's Cradle
- Battle of Wits (1×)
- Squirrels (4×)
- Snap Cradle Pop (4×)
