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Elemental Bond

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
Price
$4.40
EDHREC rank
#569
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Elemental Bond card art
Elemental Bond turns every creature with power 3 or greater entering the battlefield into a draw trigger — in the right deck, that's a card per turn cycle at minimum, often more. Three mana is a real ask for a do-nothing enchantment, but commanders like The Locust God and Koma, Cosmos Serpent generate enough qualifying bodies that the enchantment pays for itself within a turn or two.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Koma, Cosmos Serpent

Koma, Cosmos Serpent

68.2% of decks · synergy 0.63

Koma, Cosmos Serpent creates a 3/3 Serpent token at the beginning of each upkeep, which means Elemental Bond fires every single turn on a reliable clock — it's not a sometimes-engine, it's a guaranteed draw each rotation.

02
Ghired, Conclave Exile

Ghired, Conclave Exile

70.2% of decks · synergy 0.62

Ghired, Conclave Exile populates on attack, producing Rhino tokens with 4/4 stats, so Elemental Bond converts each combat step into a fresh card — the tokens alone keep the hand full without any other support.

03
Atarka, World Render

Atarka, World Render

70.2% of decks · synergy 0.60

Atarka, World Render sits at the top of a Dragon-tribal shell where every creature in the deck clears the power-3 threshold, making Elemental Bond a card for every creature cast rather than a conditional bonus.

04

Polukranos Reborn

58.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Polukranos Reborn enters as a massive creature and later transforms into an even larger back face, both halves clearing the threshold comfortably — Elemental Bond slots in as reliable card advantage in a deck that wants to keep the board stocked with big green threats.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Elemental Bond is a Commander card through and through — the format's large creatures, multiplayer longevity, and repeated enters-the-battlefield effects are exactly what a three-mana enchantment that draws on power checks needs to earn its slot. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, it sees essentially no play: the cost is too high, the payoff too slow, and creature-based strategies that could theoretically feed it have faster draw options available. Pioneer and Oathbreaker are legal but similarly unrewarding outside of niche stompy builds that lack better alternatives. If you're running Elemental Bond, you're running it in a Commander pod where your curve tops out in the five-to-eight range and the enchantment will see three to five triggers a game.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.40 cheap tier

At $4.40, Elemental Bond sits in budget-friendly territory for an enchantment that appears in tens of thousands of Commander decks, and the price reflects steady demand rather than hype. It's not a card that spikes or rotates, so buying in at current price carries minimal downside for anyone who wants a copy.

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