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Quirion Ranger

Creature — Elf Ranger

Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
The List
Price
$1.54
EDHREC rank
#2213
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Quirion Ranger card art
Quirion Ranger turns a forest bounce into effectively free mana — untapping a creature like Ashaya, Soul of the Wild or a tapped mana dork generates more value than the land cost you paid. In Yisan, the Wanderer Bard decks especially, this one-mana 1/1 is doing the work of a ritual, and it costs nothing but a forested land you were going to tap anyway.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

78.1% of decks · synergy 0.68

Quirion Ranger untaps Yisan, the Wanderer Bard after he taps to fetch a creature, letting him activate multiple times in a single turn and race up the verse counter chain far faster than opponents can respond.

02
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

67.6% of decks · synergy 0.57

Every creature that dies under Yedora, Grave Gardener comes back as a Forest, which means Quirion Ranger always has a land to bounce — and because those Forests enter tapped, untapping them via the Ranger turns each death trigger into a net mana gain.

03
Marwyn, the Nurturer

Marwyn, the Nurturer

63.6% of decks · synergy 0.53

Quirion Ranger untaps Marwyn, the Nurturer after she gets a power boost from an Elf entering, converting what would be a one-shot tap into a repeatable mana engine that can generate enormous amounts of green mana in a single turn.

04
Zimone and Dina

Zimone and Dina

49.1% of decks · synergy 0.48

Zimone and Dina want to abuse extra land drops and landfall triggers, and Quirion Ranger provides a cheap way to rebounce a Forest and replay it, triggering both the draw-and-drain loop Zimone and Dina enable.

05
Selvala, Explorer Returned

Selvala, Explorer Returned

49.1% of decks · synergy 0.47

Quirion Ranger untaps Selvala, Explorer Returned to activate her group-hug tap ability a second time in a turn, doubling the mana and card draw she generates and making storm-style explosive turns much easier to assemble.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Quirion Ranger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is where it sees the most play by a wide margin, slotting into virtually any green deck that runs mana creatures. In Pauper it's a genuine combo piece, showing up in Elves lists that use the untap trigger to generate large amounts of mana through Birchlore Rangers or similar. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically legal homes, but the formats move too fast for a one-mana 1/1 utility creature to matter outside of dedicated Elf combo shells. Modern is legal but practically irrelevant — the format's threat density makes a symmetrical utility body this fragile a liability rather than an engine piece.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.54 cheap tier

At $1.54, Quirion Ranger sits in comfortable budget territory — cheap enough to include on impulse, meaningful enough that it pulls real weight in the decks that want it. The price is stable; this is a card with a clear, repeatable role in green creature strategies, and it's unlikely to spike or crater based on anything short of a reprint wave.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.