Galewind Moose
Creature — Elemental Elk
Flash
Vigilance, reach, trample
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #11614
Galewind Moose puts a hasty, trampling body on the battlefield the turn you cast it — relevant keywords that close games, not just fill a slot. The cost is the mana investment: you need to have the right instants and sorceries in hand to unlock its full keyword suite, which makes it a better fit in dedicated shells like Indominus Rex, Alpha than in generic green stompy.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Indominus Rex, Alpha
Indominus Rex, Alpha's ability to exile instants and sorceries from your hand to grant keywords maps directly onto what Galewind Moose already wants — the two cards are pulling in the same direction, and Galewind Moose shows up in nearly a quarter of Indominus Rex, Alpha decks because of it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Galewind Moose earns its slot specifically in keyword-matters and instants-and-sorceries shells — outside of those, a vanilla-ish six-drop with haste and trample is a hard sell at a hundred-card table. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, it doesn't register; the rate isn't close to what those formats demand. Standard and Pioneer are where Galewind Moose has the most plausible case for fringe play if a keyword-synergy archetype emerges, but it hasn't defined either format. Bottom line: this is a Commander card, and a role-player one at that.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Galewind Moose is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if it fits your build. Bulk rares with narrow applications don't tend to spike, so the price is stable in the direction of staying cheap.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Indominus Rex, Alpha
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.