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Elemental Mastery

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: Create X 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste, where X is this creature's power. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step."

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Neon Dynasty Commander
Price
$0.73
EDHREC rank
#8467
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Elemental Mastery card art
Elemental Mastery turns any creature's power into a token army at the cost of tapping it — the bigger the creature, the more attackers you flood the board with that very turn. The four-mana enchantment is worth it when your deck already wants to untap creatures repeatedly, and Midnight Guard plus Elemental Mastery is one of the format's cleanest infinite-token loops; Akul the Unrepentant commanders know this well.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Akul the Unrepentant

Akul the Unrepentant

37.4% of decks · synergy 0.37

Akul the Unrepentant enters as a 6/6 with menace, so Elemental Mastery stapled to him immediately produces six hasty tokens on attack — and the Midnight Guard combo sits right in Rakdos colors with enough black tutors to find it consistently.

02
Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade

25.9% of decks · synergy 0.25

Chishiro, the Shattered Blade distributes +1/+1 counters every time an Aura or Equipment enters, so Elemental Mastery attaches to a counter-laden creature and immediately scales the token count with every subsequent trigger.

03
Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

25.4% of decks · synergy 0.25

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash rewards haste creatures with Treasure production, and the hasty tokens Elemental Mastery generates on attack feed straight back into that engine — more tokens mean more Treasures mean more spells the same turn.

04
Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

Valduk, Keeper of the Flame

17.2% of decks · synergy 0.17

Valduk, Keeper of the Flame already creates Elemental tokens for each Aura attached to him, so Elemental Mastery is just another Aura stacking that payoff while also converting his power into a second wave of attackers.

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 Elemental Mastery lives — multiplayer games give you high-power creatures worth enchanting and enough time to assemble the Midnight Guard loop before the table closes out. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but almost never played; the four-mana investment with no immediate board impact is far too slow against those formats' threat density and interaction. Modern offers marginally more tolerance for grind, but the card still lacks the raw efficiency the format demands. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card-adjacent format where Elemental Mastery occasionally shows up, specifically in Planeswalker shells that generate large creatures as part of their game plan.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

118 decks
Intruder AlarmElemental Mastery

Intruder AlarmElemental Mastery

Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite ETB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.73 bulk tier

At $0.73, Elemental Mastery is deep bulk — cheap enough to throw into any red creature deck without a second thought. The price is unlikely to climb given repeated printings and niche appeal, so pick it up now if a build calls for it rather than waiting for a reprint dip that may never come.

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