Drove of Elves
Creature — Elf
Hexproof
Drove of Elves's power and toughness are each equal to the number of green permanents you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Salvat 2011
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #13810
Drove of Elves scales with your green permanent count and comes with built-in hexproof, making it a threat that dodges most spot removal and grows to absurd size in dense Elf builds. The floor is embarrassingly low in the early game, but in the mid-to-late turns of an Elf deck — especially under Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury, where green permanents pile up fast — it routinely swings as a 10/10 or better for four mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury floods the board with Elf tokens and other green permanents, so Drove of Elves enters the battlefield already enormous and stays there — hexproof means Freyalise's own -2 can't accidentally kill it, and opponents have no clean answer short of a board wipe.
Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Ezuri, Renegade Leader wants the biggest Elves it can find to funnel overrun activations through, and Drove of Elves reliably clears the size threshold needed to end games in one combat — a hexproof body that Ezuri can pump but that removal can't pick off beforehand is exactly the profile this deck wants.
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 |
Drove of Elves is a Commander card — full stop. In Legacy and Vintage, where turn-four 10/10s with hexproof are still slower than the formats' actual threats, it never sees play; Elf tribal in those formats runs lean, explosive lines that don't have room for a slow-building payoff creature. Commander is where Drove of Elves actually delivers: 40-life games go long enough for green permanent counts to balloon, and hexproof is a genuinely meaningful protection mode when opponents have one removal spell per turn rather than a full interactive deck. In Oathbreaker it can occasionally find a home in green creature-dense builds, but the smaller deck size compresses the game enough that the scaling matters less.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Drove of Elves isn't currently available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Historically it has been a bulk uncommon, and given that it sees essentially no competitive play, there's no reason to expect a premium — pick it up as a cheap role-player for your Elf build.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.