Ellyn Harbreeze, Busybody
Legendary Creature — Human Peasant
: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of tokens you created this turn. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #12123
Ellyn Harbreeze, Busybody turns every nontoken creature entering the battlefield into a potential free card, as long as it's the first one you've played this turn — a draw engine that scales directly with how many cheap creatures your deck runs. The catch is the token tithe: each draw costs you a 1/1 Human, so you're trading a body for a card, which matters less in token-dense strategies and more in lean creature lists like Samwise Gamgee, where the Human fuels sacrifice payoffs anyway.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee triggers off Food tokens and creature enters-the-battlefield effects constantly, so Ellyn Harbreeze, Busybody slots in as repeatable card draw — every cheap creature you cast refills your hand while the Human token feeds Samwise's sacrifice loop.
Cadira, Caller of the Small
Cadira, Caller of the Small floods the board with Rabbit tokens on combat damage, and Ellyn Harbreeze, Busybody rewards the parade of small creatures you're already casting to keep the engine moving with a steady stream of cards.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ellyn Harbreeze, Busybody is a Commander card through and through — the design assumes a long game with a steady stream of cheap creatures, and that's exactly what white weenie and token strategies in the format deliver. At three mana in a color that historically struggles for card draw, she fills a genuine structural hole: one extra card per turn cycle is meaningful when you're rebuilding after a wrath or grinding through a stalled board. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but entirely uninterested — three mana for conditional, one-card-per-turn draw doesn't compete with Brainstorm or Ponder. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multiplayer pacing to make her a reasonable include there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Ellyn Harbreeze, Busybody is deep bulk — this is a pickup-a-playset price point with essentially zero financial risk. Bulk rares with narrow commander applications rarely spike, so don't expect this to move unless a high-profile deck list pushes demand.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.