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Elvish Guidance

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Onslaught
Price
$1.40
EDHREC rank
#6348
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Elvish Guidance card art
Elvish Guidance turns any forest into a mana engine — enchant a land that Arbor Elf can untap and you're generating absurd green mana as early as turn three. At three mana for an enchantment with no immediate board presence, it asks you to already have elves in play, but in any dedicated elf deck like Ezuri, Renegade Leader that condition is trivially met.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ezuri, Renegade Leader

Ezuri, Renegade Leader

51.9% of decks · synergy 0.49

Ezuri, Renegade Leader needs a critical mass of mana to repeatedly activate his overrun ability, and Elvish Guidance on a forest that gets untapped multiple times in a turn can supply the whole pump chain on its own.

02
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury

Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury

29.4% of decks · synergy 0.27

Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury generates her own elf tokens, which feed directly into the tap count Elvish Guidance uses — the more tokens she makes, the more mana the enchanted land produces each tap.

03
Marwyn, the Nurturer

Marwyn, the Nurturer

28.0% of decks · synergy 0.25

Marwyn, the Nurturer already scales her tap value with every elf that enters, and Elvish Guidance adds a parallel mana multiplier on any forest, letting the deck convert a wide board into explosive bursts of green mana.

04
Abomination of Llanowar

Abomination of Llanowar

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.22

Abomination of Llanowar incentivizes flooding the board with elves for its own power and toughness, and that same wide board is exactly what makes Elvish Guidance's forest taps produce enormous sums.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Elvish Guidance does its best work — elf tribal is one of the most popular archetypes in the format, and a single enchantment that scales with board size fits cleanly into that shell. In Pauper, it's a legal common with a real niche in Elf combo builds that use untap effects to generate large mana sums, though the format's faster clock makes the setup more fragile. Legacy and Vintage legality is mostly academic; those formats don't have space for a three-mana enchantment that requires additional pieces to generate value. Elvish Guidance is a Commander card in practice, and that's the context where it earns its slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.40 cheap tier

At $1.40, Elvish Guidance sits at a price that's easy to justify for any elf deck that runs forest-untappers. It sees enough focused demand from tribal Commander builds to stay at this floor rather than drop further, so picking it up is straightforward.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.