Heart Warden
Creature — Elf Druid
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, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #15593
Heart Warden is a two-mana mana dork that doubles as a late-game draw spell — tap it for green mana early, sacrifice it to draw a card when you've flooded on land. The flexibility is real, and two mana for a cantripping creature is a clean rate in any green deck that wants both acceleration and card flow.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the primary home for Heart Warden — the long game means the sac ability eventually fires, and green decks are always hunting for dorks that don't brick in hand at turn eight. In Pauper, it competes in a crowded two-mana dork slot and the draw mode is genuinely useful in a format where card advantage is scarce at common. Legacy and Vintage have access to Heart Warden but the competition is too steep — formats that fast don't want a 1/1 that draws one card as a ceiling. Oathbreaker shares the Commander logic and Heart Warden fits cleanly there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Heart Warden is pure bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that pulls real weight in green Commander builds. That price is stable; there's no scarcity pushing it up, but the consistent demand from dork-heavy decks keeps it from disappearing entirely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.