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Harald Unites the Elves

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Mill three cards. You may put an Elf or Tyvar card from your graveyard onto the battlefield.
II — Put a +1/+1 counter on each Elf you control.
III — Whenever an Elf you control attacks this turn, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
rare
Set
Kaldheim Promos
Price
$0.39
EDHREC rank
#12763
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Harald Unites the Elves card art
Harald Unites the Elves is a three-chapter saga that mills four cards, puts an Elf from any graveyard directly onto the battlefield, and then pumps your entire team — three distinct payoffs on one card at three mana. Abomination of Llanowar scales directly off the number of Elves in your graveyard and in play, so every chapter feeds the stat line; Moritte of the Frost can copy the saga to run the sequence twice.

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Abomination of Llanowar

Abomination of Llanowar

27.3% of decks · synergy 0.26

Abomination of Llanowar's power and toughness equal the number of Elves across your battlefield and graveyard, and Harald Unites the Elves loads both zones simultaneously — milling Elves into the graveyard while reanimating one to the battlefield and then buffing the rest makes every chapter a stat boost.

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

Harald Unites the Elves is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker. Commander is its natural home: three mana for graveyard filling, reanimation, and a team-wide pump is exactly the kind of multi-purpose saga that pulls weight in a 100-card singleton format where redundancy is scarce. In Pioneer and Modern, tribal Elf shells can use it, but the ceiling is lower — competitive builds in those formats tend to win faster than a three-chapter saga can close out. Legacy and Vintage have the tools to abuse it but have better options, so it sees essentially no play there.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.39 bulk tier

At $0.39, Harald Unites the Elves sits firmly in bulk territory — it's a high-value pickup for the price, delivering effects that would cost multiples more if split across separate cards. Bulk rares with genuine synergy in popular tribe decks tend to stay cheap, so don't expect the price to move unless Elf tribal gets a competitive boost.

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