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Elvish Regrower

Creature — Elf Druid

When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Foundations
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#7973
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Elvish Regrower card art
Elvish Regrower puts a sorcery back in your hand the moment it enters — relevant effect, free-ish execution when you pair it with Escape Protocol. The cost is a 1/1 body for three mana, which is unplayable in fair contexts, so the card lives or dies entirely by the combo shells it enables.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Elvish Regrower is a Commander card — full stop. The formats where it's legal are numerous, but outside of 100-card singleton the card is simply too slow and too narrow to compete: a 1/1 for three with an ETB that recurs a single sorcery doesn't move the needle in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where redundancy and efficiency make this look like a draft throwaway. In Commander the calculus flips, because you only need one copy to enable a loop, and the singleton format means redundancy is something you build around rather than depend on.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Elvish Regrower is bulk — you're picking it up as an afterthought in a package order, not hunting it down. Bulk combo pieces tend to spike if their loop gets popularized, but at this price you buy the copies you need now and don't think twice about it.

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