Wood Elves

Creature — Elf Scout

When Wood Elves enters the battlefield, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

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
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
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (41)

Kjacobson6800 on Mo' Counters, Mo' Mana, Mo' Monsters! *Help

1 week ago

Looks like a fun budget build, I like what Belfore has to say. That being said, Greens original lifeblood is mana production. I would focus on that a bit more. Cards like Llanowar Elves Elvish Mystic Arbor Elf Wood Elves etc. Assuming you can make Rishkar huge with counters, Rogue's Passage may come in handy for lethal swings with Commander damage. I also really like Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip these days. More proliferate and doubling could really make this thing go off. Maybe take a look at what cards you're willing to squeeze in /spend money on that can double your counters. Chord of Calling is affordable and may be a nice addition. Id definitely grab a Genesis Hydra.... Seems like it would fit the flavor.

DreadKhan on How Good is Leyline Prowler?

1 month ago

Unless you're also in Blue it's an outright awful card compared to just playing something like Wood Elves to get a land and give you a body. Bonus advice, if I have access to Green I generally play very few mana rocks, Green has great land ramp at low to mid power, and some people happily play Nature's Lore type cards in high power. The reason it's a BIT better in Blue is you could be holding up a counter. Hope this helps!

WItC on Budget Beginner Teach Decks (#1 Green) w Puzzles!

3 months ago

I'm back.

Sauluz: I'm a big fan of the Guay art for Wood Elves, and the price is only a little higher, but Farhaven Elf is a great alternative.

michales: Thank you.

hypotheek: no changes other than shown, but I am going to make a few changes to the red deck soon in an update.

wallisface on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

3 months ago

Kazierts just spelling out my viewpoint in case its not clear:

• I have said that Wood Elves is a reasonable choice in a Chulane deck

• Saying that, I have also expressed heavy scepticism that its the best current addition to the OPs personal Chulane deck, seeing as they’re missing soo many more obvious/optimal choices for mana acceleration/ramp.

• Every other comment prior to the specific Chulane comments had been directed towards the OPs Ghired deck, which I maintain has no reason to run Wood Elves (or creature cards in general).

Kazierts on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

3 months ago

wallisface, if you go to Chulane's page, you'll see Wood Elves as one of the top creatures being used for his decks, right below Dream Stalker and above Sakura-Tribe Elder. Also, you can include all the mana dorks you want + Wood Elves no problem.

wallisface on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

3 months ago

Sorry for the triple-post, just done some more digging specific to Chulane- I see from edhrec that Wood Elves isn’t suggested at all whereas every single mana dork is… it would make a LOT of sense to be including all of those before even thinking about Wood Elves

wallisface on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

3 months ago

Specifically for OPs Ghired deck, which I had assumed this entire conversation was about, there are only 2 creatures that can make copies of creatures (Bramble Sovereign and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, both of which should have better targets), zero ways to blink creatures, and only 2 other cards I saw which care about creatures entering (Aura Shards and Warleader's Call). None of this justifies Wood Elves.

Even for OPs Chulane deck, where Wood Elves feels more at-home, there’s basically no synergy outside of the commander itself, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines and two blink spells (for some reason Ephemerate isn’t even being played). While Wood Elves has actual value here, I can’t see it being more useful than a Birds of Paradise or any other mana-dork for that matter, which the deck is missing.

wallisface on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

3 months ago

Kazierts my point with Wood Elves is that I can’t imagine ever blinking it in a deck filled with better blink targets. Its not that blinking it is an inherently bad thing to do, I personally just don’t see it ever happening when any other target you choose likely gets you more value (imo using a blink effect just for a land on turn 4 onwards feels really suboptimal).

I would agree Chulane, Teller of Tales makes Wood Elves look good. That card was never bought up and it wasn’t the commander being discussed. Using that commander would change the discussion entirely, so I don’t see this being a fair point.

Agree that I see no inherent synergy with Ghired, Conclave Exile. Presumably copy tokens are being made? - and if so, again i’d wager there’s better creatures to make tokens of