Battlewand Oak
Creature — Treefolk Warrior
Whenever a Forest you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #16624
Battlewand Oak enters as a 3/3 and grows by +2/+2 for each Forest you play after it — in a deck that ramps hard, that ceiling is absurd for three mana. Outside dedicated Forest-tribal shells like Fangorn, Tree Shepherd, it's a vanilla body that never gets off the ground, so the deck requirement is real.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd is the natural home: every Forest entering the battlefield is an engine trigger anyway, and Battlewand Oak turns that same sequence into a growing threat that demands an answer before it tops out at 10+ power.
Doran, the Siege Tower
Doran, the Siege Tower cares about toughness as power, and Battlewand Oak's toughness scales alongside its power — a Forest-heavy Doran build gets a beater that hits hard under Doran's effect and only gets scarier as lands resolve.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Battlewand Oak is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it earns a slot is Commander — specifically Forest-tribal and Treefolk builds where land-drop volume is high enough to close games. In Pauper it's a three-mana 3/3 that demands too many specific conditions to compete with efficient commons. In Legacy and Vintage the power bar is simply too high for a creature that needs multiple land drops to threaten anything.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Battlewand Oak is bulk — grab it out of a commons box and don't think twice about the cost. Bulk creature slots this narrow rarely recover value, so treat it as a free inclusion if it fits the deck, not a card worth tracking.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.