Timber Wolves
Creature — Wolf
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Limited Edition Alpha
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23271
Timber Wolves is a 1/1 for one green mana with banding — a mechanic so narrow and confusing that almost no competitive deck has a reason to run it. The card sees essentially no play and exists today as a curiosity for old-school collectors, not a practical deckbuilding choice.
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 |
Timber Wolves is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 1/1 for G with banding offers no meaningful board impact at any stage of the game — banding has zero synergy with the format's go-wide and go-big strategies. Legacy and Vintage have access to every powerful card ever printed, and Timber Wolves doesn't come close to making those already brutal cuts. Across every format where it's legal, Timber Wolves is firmly a bulk curiosity.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Timber Wolves isn't currently available, which tracks — it's a bulk rare in most collections. Check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current listings if you're hunting a copy for nostalgia or a banding-themed oddity build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.