Thicket Elemental
Creature — Elemental
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. If you do, put that card onto the battlefield and shuffle all other cards revealed this way into your library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #19305
Thicket Elemental puts a free creature from your library onto the battlefield the turn it enters — at five mana, that's a reasonable rate when the thing you're cheating out is Avenger of Zendikar. The kicker cost makes it scalable, but the base body is a 4/4 for five with no evasion, so you're running this for the ability, full stop.
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 |
Thicket Elemental is a Commander card through and through — the singleton format rewards the variance of its dig effect, and five-mana creature slots in Commander can afford to do something splashy on entry. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, a five-mana 4/4 that might cheat out another creature doesn't come close to competing with what those formats offer at the same cost. Oathbreaker gives it a slightly narrower home, but only in green creature-cheat shells where the effect is reliably hitting something worth the effort.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Avenger of ZendikarCraterhoof BehemothMaelstrom WandererMomir Vig, Simic VisionaryThicket Elemental
Near-infinitely large creatures until end of turn
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Thicket Elemental is deep bulk — easy to acquire as a throw-in or dime-bin pickup. Don't expect that price to move; the card has a narrow home and no spike potential.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.