Deadwood Treefolk
Creature — Treefolk
Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #16250
Deadwood Treefolk enters and leaves with a free creature recursion trigger — two shots at getting a nonblack creature back from your graveyard stapled onto one body. Seven mana is steep, but in Fangorn, Tree Shepherd decks that generate mana from tapped Forests, the cost is largely academic.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd cares about tapping Forests and rewarding high-toughness creatures, and Deadwood Treefolk fits both criteria while recycling the Treefolk and Forests that inevitably hit the graveyard — making it a recursive engine piece, not just a value card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Deadwood Treefolk is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero competitive play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, seven mana for a 3/6 with conditional recursion is never the right answer when Eternal formats reward speed over incremental value. Commander is where it lives — specifically in green creature-heavy builds that can generate enough mana to cast it without feeling the cost, and that have enough graveyard churn to get full value from both triggers. Outside of Treefolk tribal or Fangorn, Tree Shepherd shells, it's a fringe inclusion even there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Deadwood Treefolk is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not tracking it on a buylist. That price is stable by default: narrow tribal and commander-specific demand keeps it from spiking, and nothing about its text suggests a reprint would matter either way.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.