Elven Fortress
Enchantment
: Target blocking creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #30030
Elven Fortress pays one green mana per creature to grant +0/+1 until end of turn — a repeatable but reactive toughness pump that requires open mana every single combat. The effect is too narrow and too expensive across a game to justify a deck slot in almost any build.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Elven Fortress occupies the lowest rung of combat tricks — it staves off a single unfavorable block but does nothing to advance a board state, and sinking multiple mana into it across a game is a losing proposition against the card-advantage engines most tables run. Legacy and Vintage give it no traction either; those formats end before a tap-down defensive enchantment matters. Pauper is the only context where a cheap, repeatable toughness modifier is even worth a conversation, but even there the effect isn't worth a card. Elven Fortress is legal in five formats and correct in none of them.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Elven Fortress is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a collection binder and never escapes it. There's no demand pressure that would move this price in either direction, so treat it as a throw-in, not an acquisition.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.