Elvish Handservant
Creature — Elf Warrior
Whenever a player casts a Giant spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #29351
Elvish Handservant enters with a +1/+1 counter for each Elf already on the battlefield, making it a late-game body that scales with your board rather than a fixed stat line. The one-mana cost is correct for what it asks, but it does nothing on an empty board and competes poorly with the density of better one-drop Elves available.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Elvish Handservant earns its slot only in dedicated Elf tribal decks where the board floods with creatures early — commanders like Lathril, Blade of the Elves or Ezuri, Renegade Leader can put enough bodies out that Elvish Handservant enters as a meaningful threat rather than a 1/1 with upside. Outside tribal, it's unplayable. In Pauper, the common Elf shell is fast and redundant enough that Elvish Handservant's ceiling is real, but its floor — a one-mana 1/1 — disqualifies it when the format demands every slot carry consistent value. Legacy and Vintage have Elves decks, but those formats run on efficiency so tight that a card with this much variance never makes the cut.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Elvish Handservant is pure bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a playset without thinking about it. Bulk tribal commons like this don't appreciate; the price is a floor, not a feature.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.