Heartwood Treefolk
Creature — Treefolk
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #25166
Heartwood Treefolk punishes non-creature spells by letting every opponent draw a card whenever one resolves — run it in decks that cast almost nothing but creatures and it's a one-sided engine; run it anywhere else and you're fueling your opponents. The 3/4 body for three mana is incidental; the triggered ability is the whole reason to play it.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Heartwood Treefolk finds its real home, specifically in creature-dense green strategies like Surrak Dragonclaw stompy or Lathril, Blade of the Elves tribal, where your spell count is low enough that opponents draw one or two cards total while you watch them suffer for every interaction spell they fire. In four-player pods the symmetry bites back hardest against control players stacking counterspells and removal — each spell they cast draws the table a card, which tends to build resentment quickly. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal but no reason to register it; the formats are too spell-heavy on all sides and faster clocks make a 3/4 irrelevant. Oathbreaker is a legal option but shares the same narrow-shell requirement as Commander.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Heartwood Treefolk is pure bulk — you're paying for a niche role-player, not a staple. The price is stable at this floor; there's no crossover demand from other formats to push it, so bulk is where it stays.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.