Littjara Glade-Warden
Creature — Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
, 
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #17937
Littjara Glade-Warden is a payoff piece for Shapeshifter and Changeling tribal — its activated ability lets you bank +1/+1 counters repeatedly across your creature types, and its passive doubles the counters you put on any creature that shares a type with your creatures. The cost is five mana to deploy and two more per activation, which makes it a slow engine that earns its slot only when you're already leaning hard into a multi-type or Changeling shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Littjara Glade-Warden lives almost exclusively in Commander — the five-mana cost and incremental counter generation aren't competitive enough for Modern or Legacy, where the game is typically over before the engine gets moving. In Pioneer it faces the same problem: no meaningful Changeling or multi-tribal shell exists there to justify the slot. Commander is where the card finds its purpose, specifically in Shapeshifter-tribal or multi-tribe decks that can exploit the passive doubling effect turn after turn across a long game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Littjara Glade-Warden is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It won't appreciate unless a future set pushes Changeling into a competitive context, which hasn't happened and isn't imminent, so pick it up as a cheap role-player and don't expect the price to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.