Nessian Game Warden
Creature — Beast
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Forests you control. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Journey into Nyx
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #21523
Nessian Game Warden enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself — revealing cards equal to your forest count and putting a creature among them into your hand is a genuine body plus card advantage in one slot. The cost is that its value scales hard with forest density, making it a liability in decks that don't prioritize basic Forest or forest-typed lands.
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 |
Nessian Game Warden is a Commander card through and through — the format rewards the high forest counts that make its enters-the-battlefield trigger dig four, five, or six cards deep. In competitive formats like Modern or Legacy, a five-mana 4/5 that conditionally draws a creature is nowhere near efficient enough to see play. Pioneer is similarly unkind; the bar for green five-drops is Cavalier of Thorns territory. Nessian Game Warden's home is a forest-dense Commander shell where the reveal trigger reliably hits something useful, turning what looks like a vanilla creature into a slow-rolling source of card selection.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Nessian Game Warden is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and sleeve space, not market demand. That price is stable because demand is low and supply is high; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.