Brightwood Tracker
Creature — Elf Scout
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: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24864
Brightwood Tracker is a five-mana 3/4 that lets you pay three and tap to search your library for a basic land whenever you control a creature with power 4 or greater — slow, conditional, and replaceable by a dozen cheaper options. At that cost and speed, it doesn't make the cut in any deck that has access to better ramp.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Brightwood Tracker is fringe-playable budget filler in green creature decks that reliably field power-4 bodies — the condition is easy to meet, but five mana for a land-fetch that doesn't even ramp you (it enters tapped) is a steep ask when Cultivate and Kodama's Reach exist at the same price point. In Pauper, where the card pool is restricted to commons, it becomes marginally more interesting as a body that doubles as late-game land fixing in green stompy or ramp shells, though it's still slow for the format's pace. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage it has no competitive application whatsoever — those formats have no interest in a five-mana 3/4 with a conditional activated ability.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Brightwood Tracker is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a dollar bin, not a singles list. That price accurately reflects its power level, and there's no reason to expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.