Elvish Harbinger

Creature — Elf Druid

When Elvish Harbinger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Elf card, reveal it, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.

{T}: Add one mana of any colour.

Combos

• Elvish Harbinger + Elvish Piper

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

ZorrosRage on E3: Ezuri's Elvish Entourage

3 weeks ago

Ill try to keep it on the more budget end showing under $20 but also have some cheaper ones. You dont need all of these but just giving more options. There is others i just excluded some of $20 + cards. elves dont really need all the expensive cards to be good its just a plus. also the thing wont let me suggest every card since I'm listing too many. you're going to have to add them yourself to the maybe list if you want them there

Wirewood Lodge untap elf cant go wrong with a big mana dork. Disciple of Freyalise  ^Flip land and draw, Woodland Weavemaster dork works well with ezuri Leaf-Crowned Visionary more draw when you have mana Elvish Warmaster token maker and possible game ender Elvish Harbinger Dork and tutor Canopy Tactician big dork and buff Champions of the Perfect Draw Galadhrim Brigade possible game ender buffer Eternal Witness recursion Formidable Speaker searcher and untap creature Galadhrim Ambush Elf tokens instant speed elvish ambush Gives elf tokens Elvish Promenade another token giver Chord of Calling convoke summon creature at instant speed Archdruid's Charm multi purpose Kindred Summons helps swarm te field Return to Nature enchant/art distruction Collective Resistance art, ench and protection Harvest Season Can be good if playing a lot of basics Emerald Medallion lets you get a few things out a turn early Sol Ring Sword of the Paruns Rarely used but infinite mana enabler Herald's Horn Can possibly help you get through your deck Throne of the God-Pharaoh Possible ender burns the board for tapped ceatures Elvish Guidance Big mana Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip Big mana and get a creature Guardian Project Draw Beastmaster Ascension game ender Kenrith's Transformation draw and stop a creature Elven Chorus tap tokens for mana and use the top deck Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury Walker that gives token and removes enchant Path of Ancestry lets you scry

Kjacobson6800 on Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

1 year ago

Collector Ouphe Natural OrderGC Sylvan Scrying Rishkar, Peema Renegade Marwyn, the Nurturer Elvish Harbinger Nature's Rhythm Solid Build looks fun. I love Dionus.

Balaam__ on Alf

2 years ago

Elves of Deep Shadow might help mana fixing faster than Elvish Harbinger and cheaper than fetches or duals. Elvish Harbinger does have its uses though.

multimedia on

3 years ago

Hey, well done so far upgrading the precon.

Some Elf upgrades to consider:

• Copperhorn Scout --> Defiant Elf
• Elvish Harbinger --> Lys Alana Scarblade
• Circle of Dreams Druid --> Rhys the Exiled
• Fauna Shaman --> Sylvan Messanger
• Elvish Guidance --> Elderfang Ritualist

Copperhorn Scout pairs well with Immaculate Magistrate or Timberwatch Elf to have a repeatable untap effect to make Lathril huge when you attack with Elves. With Immaculate since the counters stay on the creature then can keep Scout and Lathril huge. Fauna Shaman repeatable tutor effect can be useful with Elves that are not impactful enough in the game to tutor for a more impactful creature. Fauna brings a toolbox effect with Elves since she can get any creature and untap effects work really well with her to chain tutor.

Elvish Harbinger and Circle of Dreams Druid are much more price then the Elves you could cut for them, but they're among the better Elves in the tribe. Circle is another mass mana combo Elf, it's Gaea's Cradle effect and Harbinger is an Elf tutor that's also a mana Elf who can make black mana. Elvish Guidance isn't an Elf, but it's another mass mana effect and after enchanting a Forest pair with Arbor Elf.

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Some nonElf upgrades to consider:

• Staff of Domination --> Door of Destinies
• Cultist of the Absolute --> Crown of Skemfar
• Patriarch's Bidding --> Return Upon the Tide
• Assassin's Trophy or Beast Within --> Putrefy
• Victimize --> Lead the Stampede

Staff of Domination is most powerful artifact with Elves since it can make infinite green mana with any of the mass mana Elves (Priest, Archdruid, Circle, Marwyn, etc.) if they can make at least 5 mana. Infinite green is then paid into Staff to draw as much of your deck as you want to find Ezuri wincon or to get at least 10 Elves in your control. Lathril's tap 10 Elves to make each opponent lose 10 life can be a wincon with Staff since Staff can infinite untap Lathril and 10 Elves.

Cultist of the Absolute is busted with Lathril for only 1 mana. Without any other boost to p/t it makes Lathril a 5/6 flying/deathtouch/menace threat. The combination of having menace and deathtouch makes combat a nightmare for opponent. Lathril provides the creature sac fodder that's needed to fuel Absolute. Patriarch's Bidding is mass reanimation of Elves for 5 mana.

Door of Destinies isn't a good anthem effect card since it doesn't pump anything without casting an Elf the same turn you play it meaning need more than 4 mana to get any value at all. For 4 mana you can do much better if an anthem effect is what you want.

Some land upgrades to consider:

• Rogue's Passage --> Myriad Landscape
• Twilight Mire --> Blooming Marsh
• Woodland Chasm --> Skemfar Elderhall

Over a couple of turns Rogue's Passage alone with Lathril can build you an Elf army, that's pretty good for a land. Twilight Mire for 1 green mana can make BB and that's helpful when green mana is much more plentiful than black mana, but black mana is also important.

Woodland Chasm is another Golgari dual land that Verdant or Wood to get. Blooming Marsh will rarely ETB untapped making it much worse land then it appears especially for it's price. Fast lands are better in formats where you can play 4x of them for consistency of having them the first three turns of a game. Fast lands are overpriced dual lands in Commander.

Good luck with your deck.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Elvish Dinomancy

3 years ago

That's...pretty insane. Maybe add in some Elvish Harbingers?

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge

4 years ago

Maturing Phoenix {BR}

Creature - Phoenix

{BR}{BR}: ~ becomes 3/3 and gains flying.

{BR}{BR}{BR}: If ~ has flying, it becomes 5/5 and gains menace, "If ~ would leave the battlefield, it phases out instead." and "Whenever ~ phases in, put a +1/+1 counter on it".

{BR}{BR}{BR}{BR}{BR}: If ~ has Menace, it deals 7 damage to each creature you don't control and each opponent.

0/1

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Create a Harbinger for an underused tribe (compare Elvish Harbinger, Treefolk Harbinger etc).

Vessiliana on Golgaris spiked-ear hordes

4 years ago

Have you considered Elvish Harbinger? I find the on-tribe tutor to be useful in my own Elf tribal deck. Also, I noticed Mana Reflection in your maybeboard, and I highly recommend it! Elves make so much mana of themselves that doubling it just wins games!

And just for thematic fun, have you thought about Gilt-Leaf Palace?

magicbike on green machine

4 years ago

so i made a little change in my deck put some board wipes in some times when its going slow you need a reset In Garruk's WakeDeadly TempestElvish Dreadlord

some small changes

always handy to get cards with Wirewood Symbiote its good with Shaman of the Pack or Skemfar Shadowsage or Elvish Harbinger or Farhaven Elf

en i bought for card drawVampiric Rites