Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru
Legendary Creature — Elf Scout
When Sutina enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Whenever Sutina attacks, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #9505
Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru turns every Elf you play into a draw trigger, which is exactly the kind of sustained gas that tribal green decks are starved for. The five-mana cost is real, but the payoff in any Elf-dense shell is card advantage that compounds with each creature you land after her.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru is a Commander card through and through — the effect is too slow and too incremental for Legacy or Vintage, where the game is usually decided before five mana matters. In Commander, she fills a genuine hole in mono-green and Simic Elf lists that generate board presence but burn through hands quickly. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if your planeswalker supports an Elf strategy, but the 60-card formats where she's technically legal have no real use for a five-mana tribal payoff with no immediate impact.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bargain bin. Bulk tribal payoffs rarely appreciate unless the tribe breaks into competitive relevance, so treat this as a cheap functional include rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.