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Birchlore Rangers

Creature — Elf Druid Ranger

Tap two untapped Elves you control: Add one mana of any color.
Morph {G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Salvat 2005
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#11254
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Birchlore Rangers card art
Birchlore Rangers turns any two untapped Elves into a mana of any color — a one-drop that quietly fuels off-color activations and explosive mana chains in elf-dense boards. Ezuri, Renegade Leader and Yedora, Grave Gardener both lean on it specifically because it converts excess creatures into colored mana without tapping them for combat, and at one mana the entry cost is nearly free.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Ezuri, Renegade Leader

Ezuri, Renegade Leader

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.18

Birchlore Rangers slots into Ezuri, Renegade Leader as a mana accelerant that scales directly with the thing Ezuri already wants — a wide board of Elves — letting you funnel more green mana into Overrun activations while your other elves stay untapped to attack.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Birchlore Rangers is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, and that spread tells you exactly what kind of card it is: a role-player in elf-tribal shells wherever those exist. In Commander it's a staple in any mono-green or Golgari elf build that needs colored-mana fixing or wants to chain activations on a single turn. In Pauper it sees genuine play in Elves combo, where tapping two creatures for a mana of any color is the glue that makes the deck's green-heavy mana base cast off-color pieces on time. Legacy Elves historically used it as a bridge into Gaea's Cradle-fueled turns, and while the deck has evolved, Birchlore Rangers remains on the shortlist there. Vintage and Oathbreaker are legal but the card sees negligible play in those formats.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Birchlore Rangers isn't available at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given that it's a Pauper and occasional Legacy staple printed at common, it typically sits well under a dollar and is worth picking up at essentially any price you find it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.