Glen Elendra Liege
Creature — Faerie Knight
Flying
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine Commander
- Price
- $1.02
- EDHREC rank
- #4778
Glen Elendra Liege puts a +1/+1 pump on every blue creature and every black creature you control — simultaneously, if they're both — while also making your Faeries hit harder on attack. At four mana for a 2/3 with no evasion of its own, the body is mediocre, but Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor decks don't care: the anthem effect across an entire Faerie tribal board is the whole point.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor wants every Faerie to be as large as possible to maximize the incidental card draw from Tegwyll's death trigger, and Glen Elendra Liege delivers a blanket +1/+1 to every blue or black creature — which in this deck means almost everything on the board.
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist generates Faerie tokens on opponents' turns, and Glen Elendra Liege turns each of those tokens into a more relevant threat, pushing the chip-damage plan from nuisance into something that closes games.
Alela, Cunning Conqueror
Alela, Cunning Conqueror also produces Faerie tokens in response to opponents' spells, and Glen Elendra Liege stacks cleanly with Alela's own pump abilities, making the token swarm substantially harder to chump-block away.
Alela, Artful Provocateur
Alela, Artful Provocateur builds a wide board of small flying tokens, and Glen Elendra Liege is a reliable anthem that keeps those tokens relevant into the mid-game without requiring any additional setup.
Maralen, Fae Ascendant
Maralen, Fae Ascendant cares about Faerie tribal synergy broadly, and Glen Elendra Liege earns its spot as a universal blue-black pump effect that raises the floor on every creature in the deck.
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 |
Glen Elendra Liege is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in Legacy and Modern has no real home for it — four mana for a passive anthem without enters-the-battlefield impact is too slow against those formats' threat density. Commander is unambiguously where Glen Elendra Liege belongs: the longer game lets the cumulative +1/+1 across a wide blue-black board compound into a meaningful advantage, and Faerie tribal shells give it a critical mass of targets to justify the slot. In Oathbreaker it's a fringe consideration for the same Faerie strategies, though the faster pace of that format makes it slightly harder to justify.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.02 cheap tier
At $1.02, Glen Elendra Liege sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to be an automatic inclusion in any blue-black Faerie build without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike outside a dedicated tribal reprint or a breakout new Faerie commander.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.