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Bramble Elemental

Creature — Elemental

Whenever an Aura becomes attached to this creature, create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Salvat 2005
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#25991
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Bramble Elemental card art
Bramble Elemental puts a 1/1 Saproling onto the battlefield for every Aura that enters attached to it — stack enchantments and you're generating a board without spending extra cards. The payoff is real, but a 4/4 for five mana that does nothing without Aura support is a liability in any shell that can't consistently trigger it; Whip Silk and other free-retarget Auras are what make the engine actually run.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Bramble Elemental is a Commander card — the 100-card singleton format gives you enough Aura density and enough time to assemble the engine for it to matter. In Pauper it's technically legal but competes poorly as a five-mana creature that needs setup in a format that punishes slow, conditional payoffs. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Bramble Elemental is far too slow and narrow for either environment. Stick to Commander, specifically in Aura-matters or Selesnya token builds where the ceiling is genuinely high.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't currently available for Bramble Elemental, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Given its niche role as an Aura-combo piece in Commander, it has historically sat in bulk-to-low-value territory — worth picking up if you're building the deck, not worth speculating on.

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