Elven Palisade
Enchantment
Sacrifice a Forest: Target attacking creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Exodus
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #27330
Elven Palisade lets you tap any number of Forests to prevent all combat damage from a single source — a repeatable fog button stapled to your land base. The cost is real: it eats mana you could be spending, does nothing without Forests in play, and only stops one attacker per activation.
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 |
Elven Palisade is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander it has a narrow home in mono-green or Selesnya decks that can reliably flood the board with Forests and want a repeatable combat trick — think Gaea's Cradle-adjacent strategies where tapping lands temporarily is an acceptable price. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more efficient protection that doesn't ask you to tap five lands to stop one creature. Elven Palisade is a Commander-only consideration, and even there it competes poorly against fog effects that require no mana investment mid-combat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Elven Palisade is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. There's no pressure to pick it up speculatively; supply is wide and demand is thin enough that this price is a ceiling as much as a floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.