Norwood Priestess
Creature — Elf Druid
: You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #18274
Norwood Priestess puts a creature directly into play from your hand — no mana cost paid — which means it effectively replaces itself with whatever your most expensive threat is. The tap requirement and the need for an untapped Priestess to survive a turn cycle are real costs, but in any deck that wants to cheat out five-plus mana creatures, this is among the cleanest enablers available in green.
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 Norwood Priestess earns its keep: the format's oversized creatures and singleton pressure make cheating even one Eldrazi or fatty into play ahead of schedule backbreaking. Legacy and Vintage legality is largely academic — those formats move too fast for a four-mana 2/2 that requires a full turn of setup. Norwood Priestess is a Commander card through and through, best in decks that can protect it or grant haste to collapse the summoning-sickness window.
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Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Norwood Priestess isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. It's a casual-only card with a narrow audience, so expect a budget-friendly tag unless demand spikes around a new Elf or big-creature commander.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.