Petrified Wood-Kin
Creature — Elemental Warrior
This spell can't be countered.
Bloodthirst X (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn.)
Protection from instants
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Guildpact
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #26852
Petrified Wood-Kin enters as a potentially massive, hexproof threat that scales with the number of +1/+1 counters already on the battlefield — free of charge if you can match its power with counters you control. The cost is real: it demands an established board of counters to be anything better than a vanilla beater, which makes it a mid-to-late-game piece rather than a proactive threat.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Petrified Wood-Kin is a role-player in dedicated counters decks — it does nothing in the early game but can land as a free, hexproof threat in the mid-game once the board is established. In Legacy and Vintage, it has no competitive presence; faster formats punish tap-out green threats that require setup, and hexproof doesn't compensate for a floor that can be a 0/0 if the board is empty. Modern is similarly hostile — the card is legal but irrelevant in a format where threats are expected to impact the board immediately. Petrified Wood-Kin is a Commander-only card in practice, and even there it belongs in a specific archetype rather than any green deck.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Petrified Wood-Kin is bulk, and that price is appropriate — it's a narrow card with a real home in exactly one Commander archetype. Don't expect movement; it fills a specific slot in counters decks but has no competitive demand pulling the price upward.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.