Essence Warden

Creature — Elf Shaman

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Combos

• Elvish Promenade + Essence Warden
• Essence Warden + Korozda Guildmage + Wall of Blood
• Aluren + Essence Warden
• Bitterblossom + Essence Warden

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
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

DragonMaster420 on Midnight Mass

2 months ago

if the goal is to use life gain triggers for the cards that get counters, i'd recommend Soul's Attendant, Lunarch Veteran  ^Flip, and Ajani's Pridemate. doesn't seem to be enough black cards here to be worth the splash. but with green you get access to Essence Warden, Tigra, Feline Fury, and Trelasarra, Moon Dancer. i think you have a bit too many non-creatures for Aether Vial. since everything in your deck costs 2 or less, you could probably get away with 16 lands.

Volrishan on Elves

3 months ago

you might find a little life gain from Essence Warden to be useful

kamarupa on All Will Be One

3 months ago

You're right. But... you've already got 6 slots currently devoted to spells that require creatures: Blade of the Bloodchief and Stocking the Pantry. To be honest, I was trying to avoid being too specific about what I think you should do and was just responding to your own idea about adding more removal, but now that I've taken a more serious look at your deck, I do have a lot of very specific advice, if you're interested in that, and Longstalk will definitely be a more effective choice if you do decide to follow my recommendations.

My specific advice is to cut Blade of the Bloodchief - you don't have enough creatures and you don't have any vampire and vampires probably aren't the best tribe for counters anyway. Cut Firebending Lesson - it's not that good and doesn't advance your wincon. Move Fire Magic to the side board. Cut Utopia Sprawl and Arbor Elf. If you're going to ramp, you might as well advance your wincon with it. Space in your deck is premium. No room for any card that doesn't do at least 2 things. Cut Basking Broodscale - we can find creatures that get more than one counter for less and do more. Move Runic Armasaur to the sideboard. That opens up 22 slots, if my quick math is correct.

Add 4xGyre Sage, 2xIncubation Druid, 2xRishkar, Peema Renegade, and 1xChanneler Initiate. That's a bit slower of a ramp package, but it's also more robust on theme, and creates at least one repeatable counter source. That takes up nine of the 22 slots, 13 remaining.

Add 2xEvolution Sage - it's a great spell on theme, but you gotta have stuff with counters on it for it to make a difference.

Add 4xPredator Ooze and 2xPrimordial Hydra. Those can be wincon threats on their own and interact with All Will Be One repeatedly. That's another 6 slots used, 5 remaining.

Add 3xLongstalk Brawl. 2 slots remaining

Add 2xInspiring Call.

Cut 4xForest and 2xMountain. Add 1xYavimaya, Cradle of Growth, 1xKarn's Bastion, and 4xCragcrown Pathway

Add 2xScavenging Ooze to the sideboard.

Add 1xThe Ozolith to the sideboard.

Add 1xHeroic Intervention to the sideboard.

Add 2xBeast Within to the sideboard

Add 1xFog to the sideboard

Add Return to Nature to the sideboard.

Final thoughts: The above recommedations, I think, would put your deck into a slightly slower, but more robust configuration with some protections and some draw card built in. It would be missing a way to get things back from the graveyard, which can be very useful in some matchups and also lacks lifegain, which can also be helpful, especially with grindier midrangers such as this. Lifegain is pretty easy - something like Essence Warden or Weather the Storm maybe? Getting stuff out of the graveyard isn't quite as good with green, but still doable. Bala Ged Recovery, perhaps?

Other spells to consider if space can be made for them: Hardened Scales, Bow of Nylea, Song of Freyalise, Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter, Inscription of Abundance

king-saproling on Infinite Tokens with Jinnie Fay

4 months ago

You might consider these: Cathars' Crusade, Rite of Harmony, Chord of Calling, Toski, Bearer of Secrets. Also if you ran more soul sisters (e.g. Soul's Attendant, Essence Warden, etc.), you could utilize Light of Promise, Sunbond, and Archangel of Thune as combo pieces.

kamarupa on

1 year ago

Essence Warden, perhaps? Also, with all the draw card from Elemental Bond, I'd include Reliquary Tower. Speaking of - where's the land?!?

TheVectornaut on Wolf Pack

1 year ago

I have a mono green wolf deck that I might be able to offer some suggestions from. My deck is mostly built around using Silverfur Partisan with multitarget spells like Strength of the Tajuru or Setessan Tactics to get a huge army which can then be leveraged for further value with the likes of Shamanic Revelation and Cryptolith Rite. Since you already have Band Together and some other combat tricks, Partisan could be a pretty good fit here without needing many changes. One mechanic I also like in wolves is kinship on Wolf-Skull Shaman. Not only are a lot of wolf-adjacent cards elves (Wren's Run Packmaster, both Tolsimirs, 5 of your own creatures), but many shamans can also benefit wolf token spam (Essence Warden, Master of the Wild Hunt, Nullmage Shepherd, Ulvenwald Tracker, Wild Beastmaster, etc.) If I was going to cut anything, I'd probably start with the non-Garruk black cards followed by some of the somewhat unneeded ramp and Hydra's Growth which you don't even have a trample target for. You could even consider rotating into Naya to play Voja, Jaws of the Conclave as a bomb.

Jopling on Pillow Fight at a Slumber Party (Lifegain Primer)

1 year ago

Craeter I'm good with the lifegain at the moment with the sisters, but if I needed more I'd splash green and add Essence Warden.

Same applies to Cleric Class really. The +1 counters are nice, but Voice of the Blessed is usually enough to win me the game on it's own.

Craeter on Ode to the Oregon Trail

2 years ago

Cool theme, what a classic and great to see in MtG. Also love how you've assigned roles to your cards, very cool. Cleric Class is a better version of Sunbond, the set came out ~6 years after so it's power creeped. I see you have Soul Warden and Essence Warden, there is also Soul's Attendant if you've got the room for it for extra redundancy. What purpose does Famished Paladin have? Seems like it's just a 3/3 for 2 mana, doesn't seem very useful but maybe I'm missing something. Blood Artist could also be good here, it's basically a better version of Nadier's Nightblade. These are just a few optimization tweaks I think would help, overall the deck looks great.