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Cloakwood Swarmkeeper

Creature — Elf Ranger

Gathered Swarm — Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
$0.27
EDHREC rank
#13830
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Cloakwood Swarmkeeper card art
Cloakwood Swarmkeeper drops onto the board and immediately starts converting excess mana into a growing Insect army, making it a payoff and an engine in the same card. The cost is real — five mana for a 3/3 is a slow entry — but Xavier Sal, Infested Captain and similar token-hungry commanders will happily pay it.

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

Cloakwood Swarmkeeper is primarily a Commander card — its value comes from repeated activations across a long game, and 40-life multiplayer tables give it the time it needs to snowball. In Pauper it's legal and the mana-sink angle is real, but five mana is a steep rate in a format defined by efficiency, so it mostly sits on the fringe of token-adjacent strategies. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper but Cloakwood Swarmkeeper has no competitive footing there; the card does nothing at the speed those formats demand.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

39 decks
Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmCloakwood Swarmkeeper

Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmCloakwood Swarmkeeper

Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite copies of creature tokens you control; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.27 bulk tier

At $0.27, Cloakwood Swarmkeeper is pure bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. Bulk token producers rarely spike unless a commander pushes them into mass demand, so treat this as a cheap include with no expectation of appreciation.

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