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Creakwood Safewright

Creature — Elf Warrior

This creature enters with three -1/-1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your end step, if there is an Elf card in your graveyard and this creature has a -1/-1 counter on it, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price
$0.11
EDHREC rank
#16316
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Creakwood Safewright card art
Creakwood Safewright enters the battlefield, gains persist, and immediately becomes a free recursive body the moment Mikaeus, the Unhallowed is on the table. The cost is a two-mana 1/2 that does nothing in isolation — the payoff is entirely combo-dependent.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Creakwood Safewright is legal everywhere except Pauper, but competitive constructed formats have no interest in a 1/2 that needs a specific legendary creature to do anything broken. Commander is the only home where Creakwood Safewright pulls real weight, slotting into persist-combo shells alongside sacrifice engines to generate infinite loops.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.11 bulk tier

At $0.11, Creakwood Safewright is bulk through and through — grab a copy without thinking twice. Niche combo pieces at this price point tend to stay flat unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the spotlight.

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