Treetop Ambusher
Creature — Elf Berserker
Dash 
(You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Whenever this creature attacks, target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #25919
Treetop Ambusher is a 2/3 reach creature for two mana that gets +1/+1 whenever you cast another Forest creature spell — solid stats with a built-in reward for a tribal green gameplan. The ceiling is real in the right shell, but it does nothing outside of Forest creature-heavy decks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Treetop Ambusher is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its home is clearly Pauper, where two-mana bodies are scrutinized hard and a 2/3 reach that snowballs with Forest creatures can close games fast in mono-green stompy. In Commander it's a role-player only in dedicated Forest-tribal or Elf-heavy builds — the kind of deck running Yedora, Grave Gardener or a Lathril, Blade of the Elves shell where every Forest creature cast compounds Treetop Ambusher's power. Legacy and Modern have the card pool to support it, but the competition at two mana is steep enough that it rarely makes the cut outside of budget or casual builds.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Treetop Ambusher is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box without thinking twice. That price is a floor, not a ceiling it's approaching, so there's no financial case for sitting on copies.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.