Wood Elves

Creature — Elf Scout

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

Discussion (47)

KibaAlpha on Jurassic

2 days ago

You might be interested in Quicksilver Amulet, Elvish Piper, Selvala's Stampede, Birds of Paradise, Sneak Attack, Nature's Lore, Skyshroud Claim, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Heroic Intervention, Teferi's Protection and Wood Elves.

_Kane_ on Yarok with some lands?

2 days ago

Cards I Have For You:

Command Tower > Choked Estuary

Opulent Palace > Botanical Sanctum

Exotic Orchard > Blooming Marsh

Displace > Voracious Hydra

Tatyova, Benthic Druid > In Garruk's Wake

Purchase List:

Reclamation Sage > Viridian Shaman

Wood Elves > Rishkar, Peema Renegade

Farhaven Elf > Verdurous Gearhulk

Ravenous Chupacabra > Overseer of the Damned

Swiftfoot Boots > Bolas's Citadel

Rampaging Baloths > Ashiok, Dream Render

Ghostly Flicker > Soul of the Harvest

Farseek > Scavenging Ooze

Conjurer's Closet > Teferi's Ageless Insight

Guardian Project > Hour of Promise

Arcane Signet > Veil of Summer

Harrow > Talisman of Resilience

Snap157 on Korvold, Fae King, ruler of Eldrazi

6 days ago

Crucible of Worlds would be cool! Maybe even Ramunap Excavator if you need extra sacrifice fodder?

Also forgot to mention some utility lands. You're running a on of basics, so you may have some room for lands that feed into korvld's draw ability such as Strip Mine, Wasteland, Ghost Quarter, High Market, and Reliquary Tower. Since you're running three colors you may want to pick your three favorites and add them in.

What are your thoughts on Farhaven Elf vs. Wood Elves? It might be worth the switch because it can get an untapped shock land.

Additionally, the ramp provided by Dryad of the Ilysian Grove is strictly better than Prismatic Omen for the low cost of one more mana, not to mention getting a creature to sacrifice if you need to.

MTGBurgeoning on Can You Smell What Yarok Is Cooking?

2 weeks ago

Agreed. Although Farhaven Elf can fetch-out any basic land, it does enter the battlefield tapped. Also, it is unable to grab a shock land or triome. Including Farhaven Elf as opposed to Wood Elves was about availability. Wood Elves is so good that I did not have an available copy when constructing the deck. Once a copy becomes available, I believe Wood Elves will supplant Farhaven Elf. Thank you for the feedback!

Damlec on Can You Smell What Yarok Is Cooking?

2 weeks ago

• MTGBurgeoning : it seems very fair, too for my kind of play ^^. I have only one copy of Roil Elemental and it's in my Omnath landfall deck OMNATH Elemental Landfall ¤

• Zaaman : you're wright, Wood Elves is a stapple here. I personnaly put the 2 cards in my Yarok deck YAROK, the Panharmonicon King ¤

Zaaman on Can You Smell What Yarok Is Cooking?

2 weeks ago

Wood Elves is far superior to Farhaven Elf. First Wood Elves does not say basic Forest. So you can grab that Breeding Pool or maybe even a Zagoth Triome. Second the land does not enter tapped.

smilodex on Ezuri Combo Elves *Primer*

1 month ago

Cool, glad that I could help. :) Wow, I would like to test the list right now! The deck ramps so fast and it has so many possibilities to generate infinite mana (please put sword of Paruns back in).

Therefore you have to play Walking Ballista, because it's an important alternative wincon. outside of the combat step or they can be used as boardwipe / removal / pingengine. And since you added Cloudstone Curio, I can highly recommend Llanowar Visionary instead of Wood Elves, as you have ramp + draw in one card. It's good that you added Yisan, he's a fantastic toolbox, but to get the most out of him you'll need to form a cmc chain and unfortunately you're not currently playing cards with Yisan from a 4-CMC creature like Temur Sabertooth Regal Force (into >> Craterhoof Behemoth). Therefore, you should add at least 1-2x 5CMC and 6CMC cards each. Personally, I always found Somberwald Stag strong in my Yisan deck, because he's a Removal on a Stick which can be tutored (with Curio and Sabertooth, the whole thing can be worn out even more) or, as already mentioned, Ohran Frostfang...

As a 6 CMC card I would play the Woodland Bellower (or depending on the meta Kogla, the Titan Ape or Bane of Progress

I would use one of these combinations: Somberwald Stag + Woodland Bellower Or Ohran Frostfang + Kogla, the Titan Ape

So your tutor chain is complete, so you can easily turn an Elvish Mystic into a Craterhoof with Yisan (/ Pod)

Do you have Copperhorn Scout in the deck for an important reason? If not, I would cut him.

I'll probably make myself unpopular with the next suggestion, but I'd cut the Nyxbloom Ancient for Sword of the Paruns . I personally love Nyxbloom as a card (but in my Kruphix deck), but in this deck he isn't a combopiece and because of that he's a classic win-more card, because if you reach 7+ mana you should normally win in your next turns at worst. The ancient adds 3x mana, that's a lot but also often annoying for your opponents to see you calculating and infinite mana (with the sword) is just always better than 3x mana.

I would cut Autumn's Veil for Birthing Pod. Because Autumn's Veil isn't by far as good as his big brother. Autumn doesn't draw you a card, doesn't protect vs. Boardwipes or against non blue/black removal. In addition, you now have the new Allosaurus against counterspells in your deck, so I would rather play the Birthing Pod to provide redundancy together with Yisan and so that you can look for the right creatures.

Azdranax on Useful formulas for deck building

1 month ago

Interesting topic Ramble, I've been meaning to respond for the last day or two but have just been super busy, but let me provide a mana base formula I stumbled on a few years back after noticing a pattern in my deck building - might be something to try out and see if you find similar results, as I find it's very rare to get either flooded or mana screwed using this formula. I'll provide a couple of examples as well - more for the casual-competitive decks, as my cEDH decks don't always follow the formula as rigorously.

The basic formula for mana-producing lands is: Starting base of 30 mana-producing lands, plus additional lands equal to the CMC of your commander, plus additional lands equal to the average CMC of the deck, minus designated values for each mana rock, mana dork, mana spell and draw spell equal to or less than the CMC of the commander.

The first example is for my Zada, Hedron Grinder deck: Yada...Yada...Zada. In this case, the formula is 30 + 4CMC (commander) + 2.28 average CMC, or 36.28. I then subtract designated values for the following cards in the deck: -1.0 for Mana Crypt, -0.5 for Sol Ring (or any other 0 or 1 CMC rock), -0.25 for Thought Vessel (or any other 2 or 3 CMC rock), Battle Hymn, Brightstone Ritual, Traitorous Greed and Dockside Extortionist, and finally -0.10 for each of the draw spells in the deck: Accelerate, Boiling Blood, Crimson Wisps, Expedite, Fists of Flame, Stun and Renegade Tactics for a total reduction of 3.45 and a final value of 32.83 (rounded up to 33).

The second example includes a more aggressive reduction in mana-producing lands based on my Elf tribal Marwyn, the Nurturer deck: Elves Tap and Slap (Marwyn Tribal Counters). The formula here is 30 + 3CMC (commander) + 2.64 average CMC, or 35.64. I then subtract for the following cards: -0.50 for Sol Ring, -0.25 for Elvish Archdruid, Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves, Gyre Sage, Incubation Druid, Llanowar Elves, Llanowar Visionary, Priest of Titania, Rishkar, Peema Renegade, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Viridian Joiner, Wood Elves, Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Nissa's Pilgrimage, Rhonas's Monument, Gaea's Touch and Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip. Finally, I subtract -0.10 for Elvish Visionary, Llanowar Visionary and Inspiring Call for a total reduction of 5.30 and a final value of 30.34 (rounded down to 30).

Although the reduction values could be considered a little arbitrary in certain deck concepts, this formula has held pretty accurate since I started keeping track of it. I hope you find this useful in the future, and happy brewing.