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Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

Legendary Creature — Elf Cleric

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Trelasarra and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#6927
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Trelasarra, Moon Dancer card art
Trelasarra, Moon Dancer turns every life gain trigger into a scry and a +1/+1 counter, which means a single lifegain-heavy turn can make her a threatening attacker and a card-quality engine simultaneously. The cost is real — she's a two-mana 1/1 that does nothing without a steady stream of life gain, so she's a liability in any shell that isn't built around that axis. Agatha's Soul Cauldron can exile her to spread her abilities to other creatures, and Shanna, Purifying Blade pairs so cleanly that the two are essentially co-staples in the same deck.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Shanna, Purifying Blade

Shanna, Purifying Blade

48.2% of decks · synergy 0.48

Shanna, Purifying Blade converts life gain into card draw, and Trelasarra, Moon Dancer converts the same triggers into scry and counters — every point of life gained fires both commanders' abilities in tandem, making the pair a compounding value engine rather than two separate payoffs.

02
Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn

Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn

49.5% of decks · synergy 0.46

Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn distributes +1/+1 counters at end of turn based on life gained, and Trelasarra, Moon Dancer accumulates her own counters from the same triggers all game, so both creatures grow off a single life gain strategy without competing for resources.

03
Aerith, Last Ancient

Aerith, Last Ancient

38.5% of decks · synergy 0.35

Aerith, Last Ancient rewards repeated life gain with escalating effects, and Trelasarra, Moon Dancer's per-trigger scry keeps the deck finding the next piece — together they convert volume of triggers into both board presence and card selection.

04
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.28

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant cares about life totals and incremental gain, and Trelasarra, Moon Dancer's ability to turn each trigger into a permanent stat boost means she grows into a serious attacker over the course of a Bilbo game where life gain is constant background noise.

05
Selvala, Explorer Returned

Selvala, Explorer Returned

19.5% of decks · synergy 0.16

Selvala, Explorer Returned generates life gain as a byproduct of her tap ability, and Trelasarra, Moon Dancer converts those incidental triggers into counters and scry, giving Selvala decks a low-cost creature that turns group-hug life gain into genuine board equity.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Trelasarra, Moon Dancer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where she reliably earns her slot. In Commander, a full game against three opponents means dozens of life gain triggers if you're built for it, and that volume is what makes her scry-and-counter ability worthwhile — she's a slow grower who rewards patient, synergy-dense construction. In Modern and Pioneer, a two-mana 1/1 that needs a dedicated life gain shell to function faces steep competition from more explosive payoffs, and she rarely makes the cut outside of fringe lifegain brews. Legacy and Vintage have no use for her; the formats are too fast and the payoffs for life gain are either irrelevant or vastly outclassed.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Trelasarra, Moon Dancer is firmly bulk, and that price reflects her narrow application rather than any lack of power in the right shell. Bulk rares with strong synergy in a popular Commander archetype tend to stay cheap precisely because the demand is spread thin across casual tables — don't expect movement.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.