Oliphaunt
Creature — Elephant
Trample
Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Mountaincycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #4063
Oliphaunt puts a 7/7 trample body on the battlefield for five mana and guarantees a land when it dies or gets cycled away — that's a rate you run in any green deck that needs both a threat and reliability. Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood builds around it specifically because the power-7 creature feeds Alena's mana generation the turn it enters.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
Oliphaunt is purpose-built for this commander — a power-7 creature that Gilanra's triggered ability can help cast and that immediately slots into Alena's tap-for-red-mana-equal-to-power engine, threatening to fund the rest of your turn the moment it lands.
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate replaces toughness with power for combat damage, so Oliphaunt's 7/7 body deals seven to blockers and goes over almost any ground defense — the trample keyword makes it hit even harder in that shell.
Captain Howler, Sea Scourge
Captain Howler, Sea Scourge rewards you for playing large, trampling creatures, and Oliphaunt's landfall-on-death clause means you're not just dropping a beater — you're insuring your mana base against removal at the same time.
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
Sauron, Lord of the Rings is a Middle-earth tyrant who wants big creatures generating value, and Oliphaunt fits the flavor and the function — its death trigger fetches a land to keep Sauron's army advancing even after the battlefield is wiped.
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue punishes opponents whenever you sacrifice creatures, so Oliphaunt's cycle ability doubles as a sacrifice-adjacent outlet that replaces itself with a land and pressures opponents before it ever hits the graveyard.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is Oliphaunt's natural home — a 7/7 trampler that replaces itself with a land on death or cycle is exactly the kind of card that pulls its weight in 100-card singleton, where redundancy is scarce and every card needs to do two jobs. In Pauper it's a legitimate threat; five mana for a 7/7 trample is above rate at common, and the land-fetch is real card advantage in a format with tight mana. Legacy and Vintage are too fast for Oliphaunt to matter — a five-drop that doesn't impact the board immediately doesn't compete at those speeds. Oathbreaker occupies similar space to Commander, and the same strengths apply: big body, built-in insurance, clean role in any green stompy shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Oliphaunt is bulk — pick it up without thinking twice. Bulk commons rarely move on price, so there's no urgency either direction, but you're unlikely to find a cheaper 7/7 trampler that also fetches a land.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Alena, Kessig Trapper // Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
- Zilortha, Strength Incarnate
- Captain Howler, Sea Scourge
- Sauron, Lord of the Rings
- Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.