Glyph Elemental
Enchantment Creature — Elemental
Bestow 
(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this permanent.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Aura.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #9349
Glyph Elemental enters with a triggered ability that draws you a card for each creature your opponents control — in a typical multiplayer pod, that's a four- to eight-card swing on arrival. Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor decks prize exactly this kind of ETB payload, and the five-mana cost is a fair trade for that kind of immediate refueling.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor
Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor triggers off creatures entering under your opponents' control, and Glyph Elemental converts that same board state into raw cards — the more creatures your opponents have amassed, the more Glyph Elemental pays you back when Pearl-Ear blinks or recurs it.
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 |
Glyph Elemental is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Legacy and Modern have no interest in a five-mana do-nothing-to-the-board effect. Commander is the only format where Glyph Elemental earns its slot: multiplayer tables routinely have fifteen to twenty creatures in play across three opponents, turning a single ETB trigger into a massive refill. Outside of Commander, treat it as unplayable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Glyph Elemental sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb — it's a narrow role-player with no competitive demand outside Commander. Grab it for a quarter and don't think twice about the cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.