Loxodon Battle Priest
Creature — Elephant Cleric
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #18360
Loxodon Battle Priest puts a 4/4 lifelink body on the board for five mana — that's the whole offer. The rate is below curve for competitive Commander and unplayable in any format with access to efficient threats.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Loxodon Battle Priest is legal in every major constructed format, but that legality is academic — five mana for a vanilla-adjacent 4/4 with lifelink doesn't clear the bar in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where efficient threats dominate at half the cost. In Standard it competes against a deep pool of five-drops that either generate immediate value or close games; this does neither. Commander is the most charitable home, specifically in lifegain-matters decks helmed by commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim, where the lifelink trigger feeds payoffs — but even there, the card lacks the redundancy or scaling to justify a slot over cheaper, higher-impact lifelink creatures.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Loxodon Battle Priest is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box rather than a Commander deck slot. The price accurately reflects the demand, and there's no realistic upward pressure unless a future set prints a dedicated Elephant lifegain payoff that sends players sifting through tribe lists.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.