Crown of Skemfar
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Elf you control and has reach.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaldheim Commander
- Price
- $2.02
- EDHREC rank
- #7888
Crown of Skemfar drops an Elf token and immediately pumps your whole team — on-board impact before it even untaps. At two mana with a tap ability that scales with your board, Lathril, Blade of the Elves decks run it because the token feeds Lathril's drain trigger and the anthem keeps combat math in your favor.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lathril, Blade of the Elves
Lathril, Blade of the Elves wants as many Elves as possible to trigger its drain ability, and Crown of Skemfar delivers a free token on entry plus a recurring tap ability that pumps the whole tribe — both halves are doing work in the same turn you attack.
Abomination of Llanowar
Abomination of Llanowar's power and toughness scale with Elf count, so the token Crown of Skemfar generates is a direct stat buff to the commander, and the anthem makes that already-large creature even harder to block profitably.
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury builds a wide Elf board through her +2, and Crown of Skemfar adds another body to that count while giving the team a size bonus that turns Freyalise's tokens from chump attackers into genuine threats.
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 Crown of Skemfar does all its work — tribal synergy payoffs scale with the size of your board, and a 40-life game gives you the time to exploit the tap ability repeatedly. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal, but Elf tribal there is a focused combo shell that doesn't want a two-mana enchantment with a tap ability when it's trying to win on turn one or two. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where Crown of Skemfar could see play, again only in a dedicated Elf shell with a green creature commander. Outside of those tribal EDH contexts, there's no real case for it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.02 cheap tier
At $2.02, Crown of Skemfar sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to include without deliberation in any Elf deck that wants it. It sees enough play in Lathril builds specifically that the price is unlikely to crater, but there's no reason to expect appreciation either; it's a single-printing tribal piece with a narrow home.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Lathril, Blade of the Elves
- Abomination of Llanowar
- Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.