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Pippin, Warden of Isengard
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Pippin, Warden of Isengard

Legendary Creature — Halfling Advisor
BG
· Golgari
Partner with Merry, Warden of Isengard (When this creature enters, target player may put Merry into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) {1}, {T}: Create a Food token. {T}, Sacrifice four Foods: Other creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
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36 lands · total $94.38 budget: $100
B 19 G 18 C 5
Composition 20 Basics 7 Other Nonbasic 4 Fetch Lands 1 Bond Lands 1 Filter Lands 1 Horizon Lands 1 Pain Lands 1 Shock Lands

EDHREC hasn’t published enough decks for Pippin, Warden of Isengard yet, so this manabase isn’t drawn from real-deck inclusion data. It’s ranked by a land-quality heuristic instead — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first, then basics split across the identity. A solid baseline to start from, not a tuned list.

Commander Staples

$4.89 7

Cycle Picks · Best to Worst

$89.49 9

Basics

$1.50 20

About This Manabase

Pippin, Warden of Isengard is a Golgari commander with a BG color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier. EDHREC doesn’t yet have deck data for Pippin, Warden of Isengard, so picks are ranked by a land-quality heuristic — Commander staples and the strongest in-budget cycles first (shocks and untapped fixing, dropping to scry and tap-duals as the cap tightens), with the rest filled by basics split across the identity. The picker always includes Commander staples like Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Path of Ancestry , and others when they fit your identity — these are nearly auto-includes in any EDH deck. From the catalogued cycles, the picker pulled Overgrown Tomb, Windswept Heath, Bloodstained Mire, Wooded Foothills , plus 5 more for Pippin, Warden of Isengard's manabase.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier leans on basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) adds the best mid-priced duals and untapped fixing the budget allows; Unlimited drops the price cap so premium duals and in-identity fetches come in. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.