Rogue Elephant
Creature — Elephant
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice a Forest.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #28987
Rogue Elephant is a 3/3 for one mana — that rate is real, and in aggressive green builds it hits harder than anything else at that cost. The catch is a mandatory forest sacrifice on entry, which means it's a tempo wash if you're light on lands or need your mana intact.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Legacy and Vintage, Rogue Elephant is a historical curiosity — Quirion Dryad and Tarmogoyf long since obsoleted the sacrificial 3/3 plan, and it sees no meaningful play. Pauper is where the conversation gets slightly more interesting: aggressive mono-green commons lists can use the raw stats, but the land sacrifice is a real cost at common parity and better threats exist. In Commander, Rogue Elephant is essentially unplayable — a vanilla 3/3 with a downside has no business in a 100-card format where every slot competes against utility creatures and threats that scale into the late game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Rogue Elephant is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. There's no trajectory that changes this; it's a curiosity for cube historians and set collectors, not an upgrade target.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.