Gilt-Leaf Palace
Land
As this land enters, you may reveal an Elf card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $10.19
- EDHREC rank
- #4986
Gilt-Leaf Palace enters untapped and produces black or green the turn you reveal an Elf — a free dual land for any tribe that floods the board with them. The catch is real: without an Elf in hand, it enters tapped, which makes it a liability in hands where you're already fighting for tempo.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tyvar the Bellicose
Tyvar the Bellicose runs a dense Elf package almost by definition, so revealing an Elf to Gilt-Leaf Palace is nearly automatic — untapped black-green fixing on curve keeps the engine firing without skipping a beat.
Lathril, Blade of the Elves
Lathril, Blade of the Elves wants every land to enter untapped and every mana source to produce black or green, and Gilt-Leaf Palace delivers both the moment you're holding any Elf — which, in a Lathril deck, is essentially always.
High Perfect Morcant
High Perfect Morcant builds around tribal density, and Gilt-Leaf Palace rewards exactly that — the deeper the Elf count, the more reliably this land pulls its weight as a free untapped dual.
Abomination of Llanowar
Abomination of Llanowar cares about stacking Elves in every zone, and Gilt-Leaf Palace slots in as reliable fixing precisely because that shell never runs short of Elves to reveal.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gilt-Leaf Palace is a staple in any Golgari or Sultai Elf deck — the tribal density these builds operate at makes the reveal condition trivially easy to meet, and untapped dual lands at this price point are hard to argue with. In Legacy, it's a fringe option: Elf combo shells exist and can use the fixing, but the format has access to fetchable duals that make Gilt-Leaf Palace redundant outside of dedicated tribal builds. Modern Elves can run it, and occasionally does, though the competition from other untapped green sources is stiff and the black requirement sometimes goes unmissed. Gilt-Leaf Palace is not legal in Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so its practical home is almost entirely Commander, where the tribal payoff is most reliable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If Gilt-Leaf Palace is out of reach, Woodland Chasm is the most direct substitute — it produces the same colors but always enters tapped, which is the exact downside Gilt-Leaf Palace is worth paying to avoid. Haunted Mire is another option in the same vein, and both sit under a dollar, but neither rewards you for playing Elves; you're trading the upside entirely for the savings.
Price Context
Current price
$10.19 mid tier
At $10.19, Gilt-Leaf Palace sits in mid-tier land pricing — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that any serious Elf deck should just run it. It's not a volatile card, but tribal demand in Commander keeps a floor under it.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tyvar the Bellicose
- Lathril, Blade of the Elves
- High Perfect Morcant
- Abomination of Llanowar
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.