Immaculate Magistrate
Creature — Elf Shaman
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each Elf you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends
- Price
- $1.00
- EDHREC rank
- #3691
Immaculate Magistrate turns any board of elves into a +1/+1 counter factory at instant speed — one activation can make Sage of Hours lethal or push Marwyn, the Nurturer's power into absurd mana territory before anyone can respond. The cost is that it does nothing without other elves present and asks for four mana on a 1/1 body, so it earns its slot only in dedicated tribal shells.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Marwyn, the Nurturer
Immaculate Magistrate stacks counters directly onto Marwyn, the Nurturer, turning her into a mana engine that scales exponentially — each counter means more mana, which means more elves, which means more counters.
Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Immaculate Magistrate pumps the wide boards that Ezuri, Renegade Leader wants to overrun with, letting you build lethal experience counters or buff a single threat to close out the game before blockers matter.
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury generates a steady stream of elf tokens that feed Immaculate Magistrate's activation, and the Magistrate returns the favor by making those tokens threatening enough to demand answers.
Lathril, Blade of the Elves
Lathril, Blade of the Elves needs elves to be big and numerous to drain the table, and Immaculate Magistrate ensures that whatever connects in combat is large enough to trigger ten drain activations consistently.
Abomination of Llanowar
Abomination of Llanowar scales directly off elf count in the graveyard and on the battlefield, and Immaculate Magistrate keeps the creatures on board enormous enough to end games the turn Abomination swings.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Immaculate Magistrate — the format's long games give you time to build a board, and elf tribal is one of the most popular tribal archetypes in the format, so the Magistrate has a ready-made ecosystem to land in. In Legacy and Vintage it is technically legal but irrelevant; those formats move too fast for a four-mana 1/1 that requires setup, and dedicated elf strategies there have access to faster payoffs. Modern elf decks exist and are competitive, but Immaculate Magistrate's tap-for-one-counter rate is too slow compared to what Collected Company and lead-on-turn-two goldfish hands demand. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where it could appear in a mono-green elf shell, though the card still asks more of you than it gives in faster metas.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Agatha's Soul CauldronImmaculate MagistrateDevoted Druid
Infinite green mana; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Agatha's Soul CauldronImmaculate MagistrateCinderhaze Wretch
Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Agatha's Soul CauldronImmaculate MagistrateBarrenton Medic
Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Prevent all damage that would be dealt to permanents you control; Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you; Lock; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Current price
$1.00 cheap tier
At $1.00, Immaculate Magistrate sits firmly in budget territory — you're getting a proven combo and synergy piece for nearly nothing, which makes it a straightforward include for any elf deck that isn't cutting cards for cost reasons. The price is unlikely to spike dramatically given multiple printings, so there's no urgency, but there's also no reason to wait.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.