Journey for the Elixir
Sorcery
Search your library and graveyard for a basic land card and a card named Jiang Yanggu, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Global Series Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #28488
Journey for the Elixir tutors a land directly onto the battlefield and nets you a Food token on arrival — that's two resources for three mana at sorcery speed. It's a solid ramp spell in any deck that wants incidental life gain or sacrifice fodder alongside the land.
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 Journey for the Elixir earns its slot — three-mana land-to-battlefield ramp is a proven rate, and the Food token has genuine upside in sacrifice, life-gain-matters, or artifact-synergy builds. Outside Commander, it's legal in Legacy and Vintage but those formats have no interest in a sorcery-speed land tutor that costs three mana when Ancient Tomb and fetchlands exist. Oathbreaker can use it in the same shells that want it in Commander.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Journey for the Elixir sits firmly in bulk territory and is easy to pick up without budgeting around it. Bulk ramp spells rarely spike unless a commander breaks them wide open, so expect this to stay in the $0.25–$0.50 range indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.