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Llanowar Tribe

Creature — Elf Druid

{T}: Add {G}{G}{G}.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{G}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Game Night: Free-for-All
Price
$1.22
EDHREC rank
#2187
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Llanowar Tribe card art
Llanowar Tribe puts three green mana on the board for three mana — a 1:1 rate that turns into absurd leverage the moment you add Umbral Mantle or a Tyvar the Bellicose static ability. The cost is real: it's a three-mana creature with no protection, and a single removal spell before your untap step erases the entire investment.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tyvar the Bellicose

Tyvar the Bellicose

58.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Tyvar the Bellicose lets Llanowar Tribe deal damage equal to its power when it taps for mana, turning every activation into a free Lightning Bolt — and his static means it can tap the turn it enters, sidestepping the standard summoning-sickness tax entirely.

02
Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

57.3% of decks · synergy 0.45

Llanowar Tribe's three-power body shaves six mana off Ghalta, Primal Hunger's cost on its own, making it one of the most efficient enablers for landing Ghalta on turn four or five.

03
Dionus, Elvish Archdruid

Dionus, Elvish Archdruid

49.7% of decks · synergy 0.37

Dionus, Elvish Archdruid cares about elves tapping for mana, and Llanowar Tribe generates three triggers per activation — more mana output per tap than almost any other elf in the deck.

04
Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss

Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss

38.0% of decks · synergy 0.36

Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss pumps and grants trample to creatures whose abilities produce three or more mana, and Llanowar Tribe hits that threshold exactly, becoming a 5/5 trampler that still ramps.

05
Omnath, Locus of Mana

Omnath, Locus of Mana

46.0% of decks · synergy 0.34

Omnath, Locus of Mana stores green mana across turns, so Llanowar Tribe's triple output stacks directly into Omnath's power and toughness — three mana per tap compounds fast in a deck built to never spend down to zero.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Llanowar Tribe actually belongs — the singleton rule means you can't reliably chain three copies, but the raw output of three mana from one card is strong enough on its own, and the combo ceiling with Umbral Mantle and similar payoffs justifies the slot in any green ramp build. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but practically invisible: Elvish Mystic and Birds of Paradise do more for less, and competitive green shells there don't want a do-nothing three-drop when one-mana accelerants exist. Llanowar Tribe is a Commander card through and through — format-legal elsewhere, format-relevant nowhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.22 cheap tier

At $1.22, Llanowar Tribe sits in the cheap tier and is a straightforward pickup — it's not a budget compromise for anything, it's just the card you want. Staple demand keeps cards like this from spiking dramatically, so expect the price to stay in this range.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.