Elven Riders
Creature — Elf
This creature can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rivals Quick Start Set
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #26043
Elven Riders punches through almost any ground-based board state — unblockable unless an opponent controls both a Forest and a wall — but six mana for a 3/3 is a brutal rate in any competitive context. There are faster, cheaper evasion enablers in green, and Elven Riders rarely justifies its slot outside of dedicated tribal builds.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Elven Riders is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no play in any of them. In Commander, it finds its most charitable home in Elf tribal decks where the creature type matters and the table's board states are cluttered enough to make the evasion clause relevant — even there, it sits at the bottom of the curve conversation at six mana for a 3/3. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it; those formats have access to faster threats and more reliable evasion at a fraction of the cost. Modern and Oathbreaker are similarly inhospitable. Elven Riders is a casual card through and through, and even in casual Commander it faces stiff competition from better-statted elf bodies.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Elven Riders isn't currently available, but as a low-demand card from older print runs it typically turns up in bulk bins or common trade binders for under a dollar. It's not a card you'd hunt down — if you want it, you'll find it cheaply.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.