Talons of Wildwood
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #15304
Talons of Wildwood is a one-mana aura that grants trample and can rebuy itself from the graveyard for two mana, making it a persistent threat on any creature that wants to push damage through. The rate is narrow — you're running this because the recursion loop matters, not because a single instance of trample is worth a card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Talons of Wildwood earns its slot in Voltron and graveyard-recursion strategies where the self-rebuy loop generates incremental value over a long game — commanders that attack repeatedly and want consistent trample access will use it best. In Pauper, the common restriction keeps the card legal and the price of entry low, but dedicated trample-matters or aura-recursion shells at that level have better options for the slot. In Modern and Pioneer, the card is legal but rarely sees play; the effect is too small and the recursion too slow to compete at those power levels. Legacy and Vintage have no interest here.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Talons of Wildwood is deep bulk — a throw-in card that costs nothing to include if the effect fits your plan. Bulk commons at this price point don't move unless a format-defining deck adopts them, and there's no current shell that would drive demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.