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Fauna Shaman

Creature — Elf Shaman

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Historic Anthology 1
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1500
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Fauna Shaman card art
Fauna Shaman turns every creature in your hand into a tutor, letting you chain threats or assemble combo pieces at the cost of a tap and a discard. The summoning sickness clause is the only real speed bump — resolved and untapped, it's one of the most repeatable creature-tutors in the format, and decks built around The Beamtown Bullies or graveyard recursion treat the discard as a feature, not a tax.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Beamtown Bullies

The Beamtown Bullies

46.2% of decks · synergy 0.42

Fauna Shaman is in nearly half of all The Beamtown Bullies decks because it solves the deck's core puzzle: getting specific high-power creatures like Timestream Navigator into the graveyard on demand so the Bullies can reanimate them onto opponents' boards.

02
Ezuri, Renegade Leader

Ezuri, Renegade Leader

41.5% of decks · synergy 0.36

Fauna Shaman is an Elf that finds other Elves, which is exactly what Ezuri, Renegade Leader wants — it lets you chain into whatever piece the board is missing, whether that's a mana producer, a lord, or a combo enabler.

03
Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Karador, Ghost Chieftain

35.5% of decks · synergy 0.32

Fauna Shaman feeds Karador, Ghost Chieftain's graveyard directly: discard a bomb creature to find a toolbox piece, then cast the discarded threat straight from the yard.

04
Marwyn, the Nurturer

Marwyn, the Nurturer

34.8% of decks · synergy 0.30

Fauna Shaman is itself an Elf, so it triggers Marwyn, the Nurturer's power boost while also letting the deck tutor up whatever missing piece — additional mana dorks, anthem effects, or a finisher — the situation demands.

05
Kathril, Aspect Warper

Kathril, Aspect Warper

31.2% of decks · synergy 0.28

Kathril, Aspect Warper needs specific keyword-bearing creatures in the graveyard before it lands, and Fauna Shaman is the most efficient engine for stacking that graveyard to order while simultaneously finding whatever creature is next in line.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Fauna Shaman earns its reputation — the singleton format rewards repeatable tutoring more than any other, and a card that converts a dead hand into the exact creature you need every turn cycle is quietly broken in decks built around it. In Legacy and Vintage it sees fringe play in creature-based toolbox shells, but the two-mana investment and summoning sickness make it too slow against the format's fastest threats. Modern Collected Company and Chord of Calling decks occasionally consider Fauna Shaman but almost always prefer instant-speed options that don't telegraph the plan a turn in advance. Pioneer has the same problem — the tap requirement and vulnerability to removal before the first activation keep it on the margins. Fauna Shaman is a Commander card first, a casual-format staple second, and a competitive inclusion only in very specific creature-toolbox builds elsewhere.

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Price Context

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