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Eladamri, Korvecdal

Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
{G}, {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Reveal a card from your hand or the top card of your library. If you reveal a creature card this way, put it onto the battlefield. Activate only during your turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2060
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Eladamri, Korvecdal card art
Eladamri, Korvecdal lets you cast any Elf from the top of any library for free at the start of combat — that effect alone warps games around elf-heavy tables. The catch is the five-mana cost and the setup required to abuse it, which is where pieces like Intruder Alarm and Dionus, Elvish Archdruid turn a powerful trigger into an outright engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dionus, Elvish Archdruid

Dionus, Elvish Archdruid

47.2% of decks · synergy 0.41

Dionus, Elvish Archdruid has the highest synergy with Eladamri, Korvecdal because both engines reward flooding the board with Elves — Eladamri's free casts feed Dionus's tap-for-mana ability and create the critical mass needed to go infinite with untap effects.

02
Marwyn, the Nurturer

Marwyn, the Nurturer

36.0% of decks · synergy 0.30

Marwyn, the Nurturer grows every time another Elf enters the battlefield, so each free cast off Eladamri, Korvecdal is effectively a free pump — a single combat step can take Marwyn from irrelevant to lethal.

03
Ezuri, Renegade Leader

Ezuri, Renegade Leader

36.7% of decks · synergy 0.30

Ezuri, Renegade Leader wants as many Elves on board as possible to fuel his overrun ability, and Eladamri, Korvecdal delivers them for free, removing the mana bottleneck that normally slows the strategy down.

04
High Perfect Morcant

High Perfect Morcant

31.9% of decks · synergy 0.28

High Perfect Morcant cares about casting creatures and building a wide board, making Eladamri, Korvecdal a natural fit — free Elf casts trigger the commander's payoffs without spending additional mana.

05
Nikya of the Old Ways

Nikya of the Old Ways

28.2% of decks · synergy 0.27

Nikya of the Old Ways locks you out of noncreature spells but doubles your creature mana, and Eladamri, Korvecdal's cast trigger doesn't spend that mana — it sidesteps the constraint entirely while still delivering Elves onto the battlefield.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Eladamri, Korvecdal belongs — the format's singleton structure and 100-card libraries make the top-of-any-library clause genuinely powerful, and the multiplayer environment means three opponents' libraries are all valid targets. In Legacy and Vintage, the five-mana cost is a hard sell when those formats move faster than any Elf combat engine can set up. Modern is theoretically legal but effectively unplayable at that rate, where dedicated Elf lists already close games on turn three without needing a five-drop. Eladamri, Korvecdal is a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Eladamri, Korvecdal isn't currently available here — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures. Given the card's combo potential in Elf-heavy Commander builds, demand tends to track with how active those archetypes are in the meta.

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