Stoic Grove-Guide
Creature — Elf Druid
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black and green Elf creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #17408
Stoic Grove-Guide puts a land directly into play tapped — not your hand — which means it curves into action immediately and replaces itself in the process. Two mana for a 1/1 body plus a free land drop is a real rate, and in green that's an easy inclusion.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Stoic Grove-Guide does exactly what the format wants from a two-drop: it accelerates your mana and leaves a creature behind, which matters for both attacking and blocking. Competitive pods will cut it for faster options like Selvala, Explorer Returned or mana dorks, but at casual and mid-power tables it earns its slot without question. In Pauper it competes with a deep field of two-mana ramp commons, so it only makes the cut in creature-synergy strategies that need the body. Stoic Grove-Guide is too slow for Legacy and Modern, where turn-two plays need to do more than produce a 1/1 and a tapped basic.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Stoic Grove-Guide is bulk — pick up a playset without thinking twice. Bulk commons rarely spike, so the price is stable; this is a card you grab for the effect, not to hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.