Elrond of the White Council
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
Secret council — When Elrond enters, each player secretly votes for fellowship or aid, then those votes are revealed. For each fellowship vote, the voter chooses a creature they control. You gain control of each creature chosen this way, and they gain "This creature can't attack its owner." Then for each aid vote, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Price
- $0.56
- EDHREC rank
- #9419
Elrond of the White Council puts a Scry 2 trigger on every spell your Elves and Halflings cast, which at scale means you're filtering your deck every single turn. The cost is four mana in four colors — he's a build-around, not a splash, and Galadriel, Elven-Queen is the commander that actually makes that restriction worth accepting.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Galadriel, Elven-Queen
Galadriel, Elven-Queen is the natural home: her deck floods the board with Elves, and Elrond of the White Council converts every spell those creatures cast into consistent top-deck sculpting that keeps the engine humming through the late game.
Círdan the Shipwright
Círdan the Shipwright cares deeply about card quality over raw card quantity, and Elrond of the White Council's repeated Scry 2 triggers mean Círdan's draw effects are almost always hitting live gas rather than dead draws.
Elrond, Master of Healing
Elrond, Master of Healing shares the Elrond creature type and leans into a creature-dense Fellowship theme, so Elrond of the White Council slots in as both a tribal payoff and a filtering engine that keeps the life-gain loops consistent.
Galadriel of Lothlórien
Galadriel of Lothlórien rewards you for having many permanents enter under your control, and Elrond of the White Council's passive filtering helps you find the Elves and spells you need to keep that engine running at the right pace.
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 |
Commander is the only format where Elrond of the White Council earns his slot — a four-color, four-mana legendary who does nothing immediately needs a dedicated tribe to justify the cost, and 100-card singleton games in Fellowship or Elf-heavy builds give him exactly that. In Legacy and Vintage he's technically legal but never sees play; the formats move too fast and have no tribal scaffolding to make the Scry payoff meaningful. Oathbreaker is worth a mention as a secondary home, where he can function as a signature spell's filtering support in an Elf-dense shell, though the compressed 60-card format dilutes his ceiling somewhat.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.56 bulk tier
At $0.56, Elrond of the White Council sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up for any Fellowship or Elf build without a second thought. Bulk rares in dedicated tribal niches tend to stay cheap, so there's no urgency to buy multiples or watch the price.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Galadriel, Elven-Queen
- Círdan the Shipwright
- Elrond, Master of Healing
- Galadriel of Lothlórien
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.