Cloakwood Hermit
Legendary Enchantment — Background
Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your end step, if a creature card was put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, create two tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens."
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #8345
Cloakwood Hermit enters and immediately puts two 1/1 Squirrel tokens on the board, then does it again on its encore trigger — four bodies from one card is the whole pitch. In Chatterfang, Squirrel General decks, that translates directly into four additional black tokens the moment Chatterfang is in play, making this a six-body card for three mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Chatterfang, Squirrel General
Every Squirrel Cloakwood Hermit produces becomes two tokens under Chatterfang, Squirrel General, and the encore trigger fires a second wave — the two cards together can flood the board with eight creatures off a single three-mana play.
Camellia, the Seedmiser
Cloakwood Hermit's enters-the-battlefield trigger and encore both create Squirrel tokens, which are Insects under older Oracle text but Squirrels under current rules — either way, Camellia, the Seedmiser draws cards off each token creation event, turning this one card into multiple card-draw triggers across two separate turns.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Cloakwood Hermit actually belongs — token swarm strategies in green have the redundancy to slot it in, and Squirrel tribal has enough critical mass to justify the three-mana slot. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; the card has no power-level business in either format. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table, so the conversation begins and ends at Commander and Oathbreaker, where the encore mechanic's inherent card-advantage angle fits the longer game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Cloakwood Hermit is pure bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. Price stability at this tier is a non-issue; it won't spike unless Squirrel tribal becomes a breakout archetype, and it won't drop further because it's already at floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Chatterfang, Squirrel General
- Camellia, the Seedmiser
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.